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.
Friday, 11:59 p.m. Style
maps due: Post on
BbLearn.
T 11/05 Polishing the imitative essay.
Sentence-level imitation
exercise.
Writing the memo.
Th 11/07 Out-of-class draft workshop,
Imitative Essay.
No physical class (Jodie out of
town).
Complete draft of imitative
essay due.***
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.