Memoir Project To start off this project we read the book House on Mango Street. The author, Sandra Cisneros writes the novel in a series of vignettes that include events and people that are important and interesting to her. After reading it, we began to write our own memoirs, the tales of our lives, but not in the basic autobiography format. We had to choose events that were important and interesting to us. The things that make us each unique and have shaped us to the people we are. This could include, people you know, places you've lived and everything in between. The final book was a total of 3 vignettes and 3 poems of your choice that were each accompanied by a visual that was related to it.