| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Sponsors of Literacy
Brandt, Deborah. “Sponsors of Literacy.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 49, no. 2, 1998, pp. 165–173., doi:10.2307/358929. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | This article is describing the importance of literacy and how who sponsors you play a huge part in it. The article does a great job of explaining sponsorship and gives great examples as well. The author gives the reader great evidence of the pros and cons of sponsorship. The reader gets a clear, concise view that sponsorship is not a thing that is “Perfect” but more of a sort of gain. The examples give two different points of views. The author talks about different people with differing lifestyles and somehow connect. Then she continues to explain how sponsorship makes one person’s life easier, or even making it about a money thing and how of course the person with money stays on track and the poorer person life sways into a different lane. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.
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A focus on sponsorship can force a more explicit and substantive link between literacy learning and systems of opportunity and access. A statistical correlation between high literacy achievements and high socioeconomic, majority- race status routinely shows up in results of national test of reading and wring performance. |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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I have never done research on a topic like this, but it does make me want to look more into it. The examples however, I could correlate to more than anything because it drew a big picture that I think is so true in society. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Why is sponsorship and literacy a correlation to begin with? |