 This is you. You're a writer. You're an author and you're writing this semester about ancient Greek pottery You're going to need to lay the landscape set the scene for your readers Maybe you want to establish the time and place where this pottery was made who made it what it was made out of Anything you think is essential for your readers to understand You're also going to need a really good example a specific piece of pottery. You can interpret and analyze for your readers You choose this beautiful urn with detailed decorations and paintings of human figures engaged in various activities To help you interpret this piece of pottery. You're also going to need to find out what the experts in ancient Greek pottery have to say How do you see their ideas reflected or not reflected in this particular piece of pottery? Finally, you might need a method to frame and focus your discussion of this piece of pottery For this example, I might find a source that describes feminist theory and use that to help me analyze the gender roles depicted in the paintings on this particular piece of pottery