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'Sponsorship and Access' is very accurate when it comes to education. The ones that have better access are usually the ones that come from more money. And then they get the jobs with more money and the current system has left it challenging to advance your position in society. Which in theory, does society even want low status people to move forward? it would ruin the hierarchy that society has created.

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Page 563 Boredom and Repetition Lead to Rediscovery

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Page 563 Boredom and Repetition Lead to Rediscovery

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According to Brandt, "Lowery recalled how, in his childhood home, his fathers feisty union publications and left-leaning and radio shows helped to create a political climate in his household...In the late 1960s, bored with repetition of spraying primer paint on the right door checks of fifty-seven cars an hour, Lowery traded in his night shift at the auto plant for a day job reading water meters in a municipal utility department. It was at that
time, Lowery recalled, that he rediscovered newspapers, reading them in the early morning in his departments break room. "

What Brandt is talking about here is Lowery rediscovering his love for reading. Lowery rekindles his enthusiasm for reading by reading newspaper in the break room of his job. Reading the newspaper reminds him of his childhood and his fathers radio shows that they listened to. Much like Sherman Alexie when he recalls upon his childhood and his fathers love for reading.

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In this section, we need more passages from the two women's stories, a stronger sense of how they used what they learned on the job in ways that their bosses didn't anticipate, and some sense of how Brandt writes and thinks about them as examples of a particular sponsorship dynamic.

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In this section, we need more passages from Lowrey's story, a stronger sense of the ways that the types of reading and writing Lowrey learns over his career are dictated by other people, big institutions, and not by his personal choice, as well as some sense of how Brandt writes and thinks about his literacy history as an example of a particular sponsorship dynamic.

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In this section, we need more passages from the two stories, a stronger sense of how although they grew up in the same town and learned similar literacy skills, their connections to particular literacy sponsors changed the outcomes of their literacy. We also need some sense of how Brandt writes and thinks about them as examples of a particular sponsorship dynamic.

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In this section, we need a stronger sense of the obligations a sponsor has to the sponsored person, and the obligations the sponsored person has to the sponsor. I'd also like to capture what Brandt says about non-human/individual literacy sponsors.

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According to Brandt, "Literacy, like land, is a valued commodity in this economy, a key resource in gaining profit and edge".

I think that Brandt is saying that without literacy  people won't have a drive to go out and have literacy not only for them but for their children. Brandt is also trying to explain that the powerful wouldn't be persistent in their life.

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"Both young people were pursing projects of self-initiated learning. Raymond Branch in computer programing and Dora Lopez in Biliteracy. But she had to reach much further afield for the materials and communication systems needed to support her learning"

Branch and Lopez both want to be successful and want the same things but it's easier for Branch to achieve those goals than it is for Lopez. Lopez is a Mexican American female, born into hard working class, where she didn't have very many privileges. She had to work very hard and nothing was handed to her, especially not the materials needed to get her where she needed to be. On the other hand Branch came from a successful family where money wasn't such an issue, he got his first computer at a very young age and had all the materials he needed to grow up and be successful at anything he wanted to pursue, along with the money and support he needed to pursue those goals. This quote shows the divide amongst the two who initially did the same thing, went to the same school, and pursued similar careers.

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"Dora Lopez undertook to teach herself how to read and writing Spanish, something, she said, that neither her brother nor her.."

Going out of your way to learn how to do something. Teaching yourself is no small feat. Very telling of her personality.

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According to Brandt,"Throughout their lives, affluent people from high-caste racial groups have multiple and redundant contacts with powerful literacy sponsors as a routine part of their economic and political privileges. Poor people and those from low-caste racial groups have less consistent, less politically secured access to literacy sponsors - especially to the ones that can grease their way to academic and economic success."

I think Brandt is showing how rich people don't necessarily need to work as hard because they have more support through connections and also have access to money. On the other hand, poor people have to work twice as hard because they don't have a unlimited supply of money nor do they have connections with other people to help them out with getting known Unlike the rich have the entire government on their side.

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According to Brandt, "Poor people and those from low-caste racial groups have less consistent, less politically secure access to  literary sponsors - especially to the ones that can grease their way to academic and economic success. Differences in their performance are often attributed to family background (namely education and income of parents)..."

I think Brandt is saying that poor people have more trouble getting access to sponsors, and depending on their family background may or may not have access what they want because their family may not have the money/connections.

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"Sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most in people's memories of literacy learning: older relatives, teachers, priests, supervisors, military officers, editors, influential authors."

What Brandt is saying is that all of these different people in the writers life have a huge impact because of the fact that they have this authority that makes them have such a big impact on the writer. Who is your biggest sponsor for writing?

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"The following discussion will consider two brief case of literary diversions. Both involve women working in subordinate positions as secretaries in print-rich settings, where better educated males supervisors were teaching them to read and write in certain ways to perform their clerical duties."

This quote is giving you an idea of what the next few paragraphs are going to focus on. It gets you thinking and makes you curious about both of these women. It allows you to relate the two and see how both of their life styles connect.

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" When I got to school, there was a lot of reading. I often felt bad. If I had read more [ as a high school student] it wouldn't have been so tough. But they pumped a lot of stuff for us to read. What they were trying to teach us, I believe, was regulations, systems, laws."(563).

This insert tells you how all these people learned and that it wasn't easy for them all. Most of the gentleman didn't know how to read or write but because of their job they had to learn. It also sets the bar for where the story will go and his life outcome.

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According to Brandt, "Sponsors are delivery systems for the economies of literacy, the means by which these forces present themselves to-- and through-- individual learners".

Brandt is saying that the sponsors are responsible for teaching individuals about literacy and writing.  Sponsors can be individuals such as teachers and authors as well as organizations such as colleges. The "delivery system" is the way those sponsors shape you to be ready for the world and find a place in the economy. For example, Lowery

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For more on Signal Phrases, see They Say/I Say, pp. 38-9, and 46-7.

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 Pp. 555-6 - Literacy brings profit and competitive advantage

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 Pp. 555-6 - Literacy brings profit and competitive advantage

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According to Brandt, "Literacy looms as one of the great engines of profit and competitive advantage in the twentieth century:  a lubricant for consumer desire, a means for integrating corporate markets; a foundation for the [556] deployment of weapons and other technology; a raw material in the mass production of information.  As ordinary citizens have been compelled into these economies, their reading and writing skills have grown sharply more central to the everyday trade of information and goods as well as to the pursuit of education, employment, civil rights, status. At the same time, people's literate skills have grown vulnerable to unprecedented turbulence in their economic value, as conditions, forms, and standards of literacy achievement seem to shift with almost every new generation of learners" (555-6).

Brandt writes about literacy in a really unusual way, as if it has to do with a lot more than learning how to read and write reading. I didn't expect the connection to weapons/technology or corporate markets. I'm going to think about what kinds of "profit and "competitive advantage" come with literacy. I'm also interested in what she says about how what we think about what counts as literate shifts with each generation. Why is there such "turbulence" in literacy standards, and what does that mean for me and my students? I'm looking forward to understanding more of what she means as I read the case study literacy narratives she includes in this chapter.

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in Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Ellen Cushman, Eugene R. Kintgen, Barry M. Kroll, Mike Rose. Bedford/St. Martins, 2001.