Homework #11

Brandt Summary
In the article Sponsors of Literacy Brandt talks about how people actually learn how to write a paper and how they acquire there writing skills. She interviews multiple people of different ages, backgrounds, and social classes. After she interviews everyone she backs all her information with statistics and says that writers teach new writes how to write.
WAW Questions
1. Brandt defines literacy as sponsor as agents, local or distant, concerte or abstract, who teach, model, support, recruit, extort, deny, or suppress literacy and gain advantage buy it in some way. They are usually smart, wealthy and religious.
3. Sponsored sometimes misappropriate their literacy lessons by not considering the different class levels of the students they are teaching and they do not realize that  not all students have the same access to everything.
4. When Brandt talks about using the term stratified she is explains peoples status levels and how they are arranged.
AEI
Growing up my primary literacy sponsors were my parents and family members, teachers, and friends. My parents and family members taught me religious vaules, the difference of right and wrong, doing good deeds for others. My  teachers taught me academic values. My friends taught me how to gain support through others. I feel as though I can not think of any literacy's that I have not been given access to. I may have not discovered some yet but I think they are within reach if and when I discover them.
Brandt Response
I found this article somewhat hard to understand but once I got through it I found it very useful and I am glad we got to read it because it got me thinking about things that I have been given that others haven't and how that affected my life and academic career. I agree with what Brandt says and it makes me think about how others that are of lower social standing have less academic chances that we do.