Brandt Questions

QandD

1. Brant defines literacy sponsor as something that poses some definitions of literacy. When talking about literacy it is accurate to speak about literacies, which is evaluating your own competence in communication. Literacies come in many different forms. You have home literacies such as storytelling and the language you speak. Hobby related literacies can include radio- controlled vehicles or gaming. The school system can teach you many different types of literacies like computer and information literacy. Your personal history including your family, your geographic location, your culture, your hobbies, your religious training, and your schooling teach you the basic literacies to function in society.

2. Literacy is sponsored by people. Sponsors of literacy benefit because it will support their goals.  Some literacy sponsors are organizations or institution, like a public school or a major corporation. Before the invention of the printing press, the biggest literacy sponsor in Western Civilization was the Roman Catholic Church.  Most literacy sponsors are empowering and prevent illiteracy in Americans. I have learned to become literate from having good conversation with my parents and teachers.

4. In Brandt’s writing by the word stratified is being referred to as the strategies sponsors use to force the formation of new literacy requirements, while decertifying older ones. They both have different dynamic of literacy sponsorship.  There is stakes involved because there is always a need to get a competitive advantage above the rest, always having a thirst for more knowledge. It pertains to the potential of the sponsors to divert sponsors’ resources toward ulterior projects, often of self- interest or self-interest.

Applying and Exploring

1. My literacy I feel is more comparable to sponsorship patterns of Branch because he went to a large university and the occupations of his parents were more comparable. Lopez lived in a more rural lifestyle and went to a very diverse University. Branch learned most of his literacy though his parents and his education where I always learned most of my literacy. I feel they were adequate because I was accepted in to college. I wish I had spoken to my father more because he owns a business, so I would have a better business oriented sponsor. Every teacher up until my English 151 class has forced a certain topic or certain literacy on my learning.

2. My school was very catholic and one book banned from my school was, 50 Shade of Grey because it was too provocative.  Every year in high school the students of each particular grade has assigned list of very boring books to read, which I didn’t enjoy. MY senior year English teacher didn’t feel magazines counted as reading, although I feel they are a good source of public knowledge. One of my influential sponsors of literacy is my grandfather, because he is a very influential person and a very powerful speaker though his story telling.

Meta Moment

Most of the chapter goals apply to most of Deborah Brandt’s article. She explains the concepts of literacy and multiple literacies. She states how sponsors are a good source to connect to certain groups and different audiences. Depending on where you have attended school or have worked helps the research or the planning needed to improve or advocate literacy. I didn’t really notice much of Brandt discussing vocabulary, but it was touched on, she could have elaborated more on that topic. On discussing different personal backgrounds of shaping literacy, she elaborated and made it easy to understand where literacy comes from. Her article didn’t discuss much about improving researched based or jargon based texts. Understanding where your literacy comes from helps you cite your sources and gain more from your reading.