Assignment 4

Persuasive Essay Outlining/Organization
Based on Diverse Learners using Multiple Intelligences Seminar

Once all research on personally choice topic is completed, students will be ready to move to organizing their information.

Prior to the below, have each student take the MI test to identify which styles they learn best by.  Discuss how this is a way to understand how we learn; not a method for getting out of work (i.e., I can't do this essay because I am a kinesthetic learner).

1. Review of the different type of graphic organizers used this year.
2. Discuss which organizers students liked and for what reasons.
3. Identify students who did not choose and organizer and ask/discuss why none worked for them.
4. Begin to brainstorm other possible ways to organize your thoughts.
         Lead discussion to include artistic, physical, verbal, and other MI methods.
5. Have students identify a method which they feel would work for them. 
6. Proceed in the process of organizing the research based on the graphic organizer that best matches their MI.
7. Within a two class period timeline, allow students to work on their organizer and in the method they have chosen.
8. At the end of the second class period, students meet with me one-on-one to discuss what worked and what did not work for their organizer.

Goals of this lesson:
1. Have students organize their research.
2. Empower students to find methods of learning, studying, and completing work that may be unorthodox by some but helps them.
3. Allow students some choice in demonstrating their knowledge of how to organize researched material prior to writing.
4. Identify the different learning styles for each student