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This week you will read about architecture. The lesson includes information on Roman architecture, which was greatly influenced by the Greeks and Etruscans.
Locate at least two architectural works that were influenced by Greco-Roman architecture. These can be from any time period after the Greco-Roman period but should be from different periods themselves (e.g., one from Renaissance and one from Baroque). Then address the following:
What is the function of each structure?
How does each work exhibit influence of the Greco-Roman period? Is the influence specifically Greek, Etruscan, or Roman – or a combination?
How would you compare the two selected works? Take the role of the evaluative critic.
Use examples from the text, the lesson, and the library to help support your answer. Please remember to provide images and citations to help illustrate your points.

IDENTIFY A, B, and C by artist (if known), material, technique, historical period, and dimensions.
DESCRIBE. Use words effectively to characterize each of these water works.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Explain different values of water manifested in these three water works. What skills, materials, and technologies were used to deploy water in these ways? Distinguish what kinds of relationships between humans and water are conveyed by these images.
WHEN? Consider the Japanese art historical periods when the three water works were made.  How did this context shape the representation of water?  
QUOTATIONS. Include at least one  brief quotation from each of the three listed above. All phrases and sentences that you quote must be set in “quotation marks” and attributed in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Your quotations should be short and carefully selected to illuminate the points you want to make.  Put the name of the author and page number in parentheses immediately following the quotation.  Here is an example: 
According to Brock, the scene shown on this box illustrates a Heian period period poem that mentions a  “bubbling stream” (Brock, p.102), that serves as a metaphor for the flow of time.
TITLE.  Give your paper an interesting title that hints at the meaning behind these water works. Make sure you explain your title in your paper.  
CORRECT your mistakes.
Your writing assignment might be returned to you with some of the following editorial symbols. Correct these mistakes yourself before handing your paper in: 
awk   Awkward sentence construction. Read what you have written to yourself; have you said it the best way?
pl/s or  s/pl    A plural construction is mismatched with a singular construction, or vice versa.
redundant   The same words or ideas are repeated needlessly. If you find that you can delete words without taking away from what needs to be said, do so.
tense   Mistake in verbal tense.
What?   It is unclear what you are trying to say.
When?   Be more precise about when in history this took place.
ww   Wrong word.  Make sure you choose the word which means what you intend to say.