This document provides the schedule for Project 4, which includes an imitative essay assignment. All assignments are due before class on the dates listed, and late assignments will lose points per day. The schedule outlines the class work and homework for each date, including readings, presentations, exercises, and drafts of the imitative essay and style map that are due for workshops and feedback. The final imitative essay and memo are due by November 10th at 11:59pm.

1. PROJECT 4 SCHEDULE
[Imitative Essay]
All work is due before class on the date due. Late assignments
will lose one letter grade (or the equivalent number of points) per
day.
Unless otherwise indicated, all links are on the BbLearn Project 4
page.
Date In Class Work Due
T 10/08 Workshop, completed white
paper.
Complete a full, designed
draft of your white paper
and bring to class.***
Th 10/10 Introduce Assignment 4,
Imitative Essay. Introductory
imitation exercise.
T 10/15 Finding motives of style in
essays; the situation and the
story.
Read:
-Excerpts from Vivian
Gornick, “The Situation and
the Story”
-“The Trick: Notes Toward a
Theory of Plot” (from BAM
2018)
Th 10/17 No class (Jodie away) – see
homework!!
Jodie will assign essays from
Best American Essays to
each student (individual
essay assignments under In-
Class Work). Write a
paragraph summarizing the
situation and the story of
the essay and be prepared
to read it out loud to the
class.

2. T 10/22 Deviation, physical/social
footing.
Presentations of essays.
Introduce Style Map
assignment.
-Performing Prose, Ch 3-4
BRING BAE with you to
class.
Th 10/24 Tropes and schemes. Read:
-Performing Prose, Chs 6-7
-“Lucky You” (pg 249, BAE)
BRING BAE with you to
class.
T 10/29 Tropes and schemes quiz
(50 points!).
Work on style maps.
Read Performing Prose Chs.
8-10.
Study for quiz!
BRING BAE with you to
class.
Th 10/31
!candy!
Using your style map to
structure your essay.
Style maps due: email
Google Docs link to Jodie,
who will post on BbLearn.
T 11/05 Draft workshop, Imitative
Essay.
Polishing the imitative essay.
Sentence-level imitation
exercise.
Writing the memo.
Complete draft of imitative
essay due.***
Th 11/07
No class (Jodie out of town).
Finish your imitative essay
and memo.
Sunday,
11/10 by
11:59
p.m.
Imitative Essay and
memo due.

3. **Draft workshops are mandatory. If you miss the workshop, or come without a
complete draft, you will lose 25 points.