Unit+5+-+Baby+Memoir+2+(Mapquest)

For this Baby Memoir, you will take the three pieces you've written inspired by your maps and assemble them into one polished piece.

The three maps you created are:


 * Childhood street/neighborhood
 * School/Place you learned something important from
 * Timeline of your life

However, it will not be as simple as merely typing them up as you wrote them. Shape them. Craft them. Bring in the author's craft elements about writing life narratives you've learned over the course of the semester. You'll want to show more than you tell. You'll want to trigger the reader's mental movie camera.

__Triptych__
In artistic terms, a **//triptych//** literally means **three panels**. (See the samples below for the visual representations.) Your written "triptych" will include the three "panels" of your three mapquests. This means you will have three sections in your piece, which means you will not be writing a traditional one-paragraph-after-another essay.

What you'll need to do is figure out which piece anchors your written triptych, which one is the center. Think of which one has the most weight to it. The other two will act as panel pieces, or supporting stories.

Since you're not including an actual visual-art element, your anchor piece doesn't necessarily have to be the middle section. It could be the first or the last. **Anchoring, for our purposes, means the one section that carries the most weight for you.** The other two sections offer "support" in that they relate to the theme, which in our case is mapquesting our younger years.

Because these pieces are inspired by the maps we made, you do not have to explicitly mention the maps. In fact, **don't reference maps all**. You will discover a theme connecting your pieces beyond the map aspect, and you shouldn't even mention that. **Tell the story, and let the theme be evident through the content of your three "panels".**


 * The "panels" need headings**. Take cues from Mitch Albom's //Have a Little Faith//, or with the sample provided in class.


 * MLA format.
 * 1500 - 2000 words.

**Visual Triptychs:**