| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Brandt,Deborah.“Sponsors of Literacy”.Comphacker.org |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | The piece of literature, “Sponsors of Literacy,” by Deborah Brandt explains the use of literacy and how sponsors either teach or withhold it from us. It explains that a sponsor is something either abstract or concrete that enables us to learn literacy or suppresses our want to. Sponsors can be over the radio to television entertainment. They may also be older and often more skilled adults who understand literacy. How well-spoken you were often showed your social standing in society. Social groups differ in from others. They had different access to the ability to learn literacy and different kinds of sponsors. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Rumination (Brandt 166)-a deep or considered thought about something.
Proliferated (Brandt 167)-increase rapidly in numbers; multiply. Pragmatically(Brandt 168)-in a sensible and realistic way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. Compradrazgo (Brandt 169)-the reciprocal relationship or the social institution of such relationship existing between a godparent or godparents and the godchild and its parents in the Spanish-speaking world. |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This article connects to a book I read during high school that talked about how literacy differs through different societies and social classes. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Should all people have the same access to literacy? |