An overview of Artifacts

Instructions: Based on your completed milestone papers, create a presentation that explains how your artifacts have affected you both personally and professionally and discusses the impact of your theme on your audience and the importance of it on humanities.

Your presentation should meet the final project rubric by creating a presentation that specifically meet the critical elements explained and outlined for each slide.

Artifacts: The Trundholm Sun Chariot and The Mask of Tutankhamun

 

Slide 1: Provide an Overview of your Artifacts

In this slide, give your audience the big picture. Provide a brief overview of your two artifacts. List each artifact by its title, creator, and medium. State your theme and your thesis statement. In your speaking notes for slide 1, add more detail about the elements you cover in the slide. Say a little more about your artifacts. How are they different from each other? How does the theme you’ve chosen bring these works together? Share how your artifacts are situated within the domain of the humanities.

· Create a title

· Draft your overview slide (This should the main ideas, a brief overview of your artifacts, theme and thesis statement)

· Add your speaking notes (Include speaking note for the overview slide by sharing more details with the audience about the artifacts, theme, and the thesis statement and most importantly explain how these are situated within the domain of the humanities)

Slide 2: Explain your Theme’s impact on your audience

In this slide, briefly tell your audience how your theme affects them. Imagine who they are. How is your theme relevant to them? Why should they care what your thesis statement says? In your speaking notes for slide 2, add more detail about the potential effects of your theme on your audience. Consult your exploration document and support your response with specific examples.

· Create a title

· Explain your theme’s impact on your audience (Include the main idea of the theme of the artifacts and this slide should briefly explain how your theme might impact your audience)

· Add your speaking notes (Include speaking note for the overview slide by sharing more details with the audience about the theme, and the thesis statement as expressed in your cultural artifacts, and how these might impact your audience)

Slide 3: Describe your Evidence.

In this slide, show your audience your cards! Briefly describe the evidence you’ve found that supports your theme. In your speaking notes for slide 3, go into more detail about the evidence and the conclusions you’ve drawn from it about your cultural artifacts.

· Create a title

· Describe your evidence (Include the main idea of your evidence and this slide should briefly explain how your evidence is relevant to yourself and your audience)

· Add your speaking notes (Include speaking note for your evidence slide by sharing more details with the audience about how the evidence you found supports your conclusions about the impact of your theme on yourself and your audience)

Slide 4: Describe the Personal importance of your Theme and Artifacts

In this slide, get personal. Briefly explain why your theme and artifacts are important to you personally. Share the reasons you’ve selected this particular theme, especially if there are other themes that could apply to these works. In your speaking notes for slide 4, expand on why this theme and these artifacts are meaningful to you.

· Create a title

· Describe the personal importance of your theme and artifacts (Include the main idea of your evidence and this slide should briefly explain how your theme and cultural artifacts are important to you personally)

· Add your speaking notes (Include speaking note by sharing more details with the audience about how your theme and cultural artifacts are important to you personally)

Slide 5: Explain the Benefit of studying the Humanities

In this slide, briefly explain to your audience why studying the humanities is important to people’s lives. Describe how the humanities can give you a personal and professional advantage. In your speaking notes for slide 5, explain in more detail how people can benefit from studying the humanities personally and professionally.

· Create a title

· Explain the benefit of studying the humanities (Include the main idea by briefly explaining how your theme and cultural artifacts are relevant to your personal and professional contexts)

· Add your speaking notes (Include speaking note by sharing more details with the audience about the benefits of studying the humanities and how studying the humanities can give you both a personal and professional advantage)

Slide 6: Explain the Importance of the Humanities to Society

In this slide, explain why the humanities are important to society as a whole. What do the humanities tell us about our own and others’ cultures and experiences? Support your response with specific examples from your exploration document and your own personal and professional experiences. In your speaking notes for slide 6, go into greater depth, and share more about why the humanities is important to societies the world over.

· Create a title

· Explain the importance of the humanities to society (Include the main idea by briefly explaining how the humanities are important to society)

· Add your speaking notes (Include speaking note by sharing more details with the audience about why the humanities are important to society)

 

Slide 7: Reference page – APA styles