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Warm-Up

Delve into the societal norms around violence and whether humans are inherently aggressive. Use examples to support your argument. Enhance your vocabulary with words like lacerate, menacing, and venerable.

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Warm-Up

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  1. Warm-Up • Has violence become too accepted within our culture? Why or why not? • Are human beings innately violent? Why or why not? • Use specific examples. Explain your answer.

  2. Vocabulary List #4 • Lacerate (Verb): To tear or deeply cut. • Bleak (Adj.): Charmless and inhospitable; dreary. • Menacing (Adj.): Suggesting the presence of danger. • Brute (Noun): A savagely violent person or animal. • Debacle (Noun): A sudden disastrous collapse.

  3. Vocabulary List #4 • Imprudent (Adj.): Not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash. • Ennui (Noun): A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. • Sallow (Adj.): Of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown color. • Venerable (Adj.): Accorded a great deal of respect. • Quarry (Noun): One that is sought or pursued.

  4. Pronouns • Replaces a noun or a pronoun. • Personal Pronoun: A specific person or thing that changes its form to indicate person, number, gender, and case. • Subjective v. Objective Pronoun: Pronoun is acting as the subject or the object of the sentence. • Possessive Pronoun: Marker of possession and defines who owns the object or person. • Demonstrative: Identifies a noun or pronoun. This/These. That/Those. • Interrogative: Asks questions.

  5. PronounsWrite down the antecedent for the pronoun. • I’ve always wanted to go there. • He is the coolest man alive! • I had to save money for years to buy THAT. • It’s dangerous to go alone; here, take THIS. • It would be fun to spend a weekend with THEM. • THOSE have always frightened me. • I couldn’t decide, so I ate BOTH. • I wish THEY would keep their opinions to themselves.

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