This assignment sequence was created for the unit in latter half of the semester entitled: “Unit 3: More-than-human Creative Non-fiction.” In this unit, students read a range of creative non-fiction essays—a genre requiring both good research skills and narrative storytelling. Collaborating with peers in close reading exercises, consulting course texts as “mentors” for craft moves, and completing multiple rounds of brainstorming and revision activities, students crafted their own braided essay pertaining to the course theme: “True Stories of Lands and Waters.”