Brandt

Discussion and Journaling

1 Brandt defines literacy sponsors as those who don't necessarily support or assist. They have their own individual reasons for supporting types of literacy. Literacy sponsors can range from people to institutions to circumstances. They can empower as well as dis-empower. They can help people to become literate as well as prevent them from doing so.

2 Brandt writes that sponsors enter into a reciprocal relationship[ with the sponsored.They have something to gain rather it be money or just by association with them. She feels that due to the abundance of commercial sponsoring in the 20th century from magazines to radio to essay contests,this turned the ability to read and write into a vast array of resources which led to the abundance of commercial sponsorship.

4  I believe that by stratified she is referring to how literacy is classified and how people fit into the different classifications of literacy. By raising the stakes I feel she is talking about keeping high standards so that certain expectations are met. It helps to keep things competitive. This helps to possibly force new literacy requirements into the stratified systems and also get rid of old ones that are not so appealing to the sponsor.

Applying and Exploring ideas

1 I feel that my primary literacy sponsors were my teachers and coaches in school. I looked up to my football coaches because not only were they there to just coach us in football, they gave us a basis for our lives once we graduated. They taught us discipline and respect. They also taught us that if you want something bad enough you have to work hard for it.That not only applied to winning football games but our lives once we graduated.

2 I can not think of a time where I have had literacy sponsors withhold information from me or force certain literacy's on me.

media moment

I feel that Brandt's article is relevant for understanding the concepts of literacy and multiple literacy's.It applies to having a greater awareness of the forces that have shaped us a writers and readers.