[posted on behalf of a student]
For my final project, I am writing a collection of essays about how place, including the landscape, people, and culture, has shaped my identity. The first three essays are done for workshop. The fourth essay though I thought of recently and haven’t had time to fully complete it but wanted people’s thoughts on the form I’m using. It is an essay about trees and how certain native trees have shaped me. I have put a screenshot of the text of the ID of the tree and underneath I have a paragraph of how that tree has shaped me. I haven’t decided how long I would like to make each part but I have ten trees in total I want to do. My sister thinks I should take a picture of each and add it to the ID of the tree and I would like to know what everyone thinks about that idea. I have put the book in the drive if anyone would like to look more at the trees I want to do though it isn’t necessary. The ten trees I plan to do are: Virginia Pine, Willow Oak, White Oak, Southern Red Oak, American Chestnut, American Beech, Red Mulberry, Yellow-Poplar, American Holly, and Flowering Dogwood.