Brandt response

• "Before you read" 
• In my elementary school, we had book fair where one week a month there would be a little set up with lots of books of all different levels for students. Also we would have Right to Read week, where the whole school would participate in reading activities and tie them into the theme. Also as a child I participated in the summer reading program through the library.
• My roommate is from Maryland and says that she also had book fairs in her elementary schools and that she also participated in summer reading programs, but she had never heard of Right to Read week. She said that her school had a hand me down english project where each grade would make a list of books that they read throughout the year and donate them to younger students. Both of us did not have restrictions on what we read.
• summary 
• In Brandt's article "Sponsors of Literacy" she talks about how everyone has sponsor for literacy. She talks about all the different types of sponsors and what they do for us. She mentions that literacy depends on several different aspects, like social class, family backround, and religious backround. She also talks about how "Recession, Relocation, immagration, techonlogical change, government retreat", She talks about how each person has a different reason for learning and becoming more literate. She mentions several different people and their stories based on working, based on their educational backround, their career changes, and their religious beliefs. 
• synthesis 
• Brandt in her article states that people educate themselves in the literacy aspect because of their sponsors. Also he talks about how they learn for different reasons, based on their religious beliefs, educational backgrounds, and many other reasons. This reminds me of  Kantz's article, "Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively", where she says that students don't learn anything they only use their resources. They only copy the information instead of incorporate it into their everyday work like how Brandt explains about the people in her article.
• dialectical notebook with a minimum of 5 quotations (please type the entire quotation)

• This is the definition of sponsors that Deborah Brandt uses in her article. She gives details that help the reader understand the word better.	Sponsors, as I have come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy- and gain advantage by it in some way. page 334
  This shows why people learn to become literate and why they change their ideas and education standards.	Differences in their performances are often attributed to family background (namely education and income of parents) or to particular norms and values operating within different ethnic groups or social classes. page 337
  This is another example of reasons why people and their sponsors change the reasons for education/literate changes.	Recession, relocation, immigration, technological change, government retreat all can-and do- condition the course by which literate potential develops. page 339
  She talks about literacy being an excuse, she talks about all the reasons people learn.	As I have been attempting to argue, literacy as a resource becomes available to ordinary people largely through the mediation of more powerful sponsors. page 339
  This is another example of why people need sponsors and what they use them for.	They help to organize and administer stratified systems of opportunity and access, and they raise the literacy stakes in struggles for competitive advantage. page 344

• Meta Moment (p.352)
• I think that this article is most like my life, because it makes me think of how I am learning more now that I am in college rather than what I would be learning if I was not in college. I think that this article made me reallize that people furthure education almost on accident later on in their life for their careers, becuase they eventually need to get more knowledgable about their field. Also their social positions change and they become more involved and therefore need to learn more not only about what they are involved in, but also other things that are similiar to their involvments. 
• Your thoughts: 
• I liked this article by Brandt. It made me think a lot about my life, and why people learn. I enjoyed reading about different peoples lives and why they learn different things. Most of their stories started with them being mildly educated, and eventually they became more educated in their fields and things similar to the things they like. Brandt wrote the stories about different people and their career changes, also about how even after their careers are over, they stay involved in learning.