Choose ONE of the prompts below to respond to for your original post. Each prompt can only be “used” or written about three times maximum among the class as a whole. Once a prompt has been written about by THREE different people, it’s used up, and you’ll have to choose a different prompt to write on. This is intended to generate diverse discussion over the works and to help your overall understanding of the works. If you are not the first person to write on a prompt, read what others have written and do your best NOT to repeat what has already been said. When you create a new thread, give it a title that clearly shows the topic of your post (example:
“Prompt A: Venus of Willendorf” or an original title such as “The Woman of Willendorf — Not a Venus”) Your answer to the prompt should be a minimum of 150 words and must use at least two quotations or other specific references to the original reading/media If you quote, you must indicate any quotations with ” “. All borrowed material must have citations at the end with ( ) according to MLA style. Include a works cited-style entry at the end of your post for any sources you borrowed from, even if you put the ideas in your own words. Prompt E: Choose either the video “Female (Pwo) Mask: Chokwe Peoples,” or the “Seated Figure (Djenné Peoples).”
What concepts are celebrated or addressed by this art work? For the mask, who wore the mask in its ritual ceremony, and why? What specific traits of the work give us insight into the values of the people who created it, and what can we deduce about them?
