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One negative sponsor can ruin years of positive experiences with literacy. Deborah Brandt, an English professor, writes about the way sponsors can filter literacy from learners. She states, “Sponsors…enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy- and gain advantage by it in some way.” In other words, Brandt believes that people expose others to literacy to benefit themselves. Austin Scaglione, a college student, was exposed to a bad sponsor in high school. He was an…

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I want to explore why one bad literacy experience can ruin years of positive experiences with literacy. HUNTER ELLIS SHAMUS GORDAN AUSTIN SCAGLIONE DUSTIN TRIPP GRACE SILVA LINDZEE RIDLEY

Kayla Williams’ victim concept “The worst part about it all is that he hated his job, which was obvious. He would say things like “‘Why am I here?’ or When will this day end?’” (Kayla) Students would write about being the “victim of bad or insensitive teaching” (Williams 344). The detail in the narrative is an example of Williams’ victim category because the teacher seemed to have gone out of his way to be “insensitive” (Williams 344). Not only did…

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Turn Around?  The top annotation is relating the narrative to Alexander’s prodigy category. The following annotation is relating the narrative to Alexander’s victim category. Passion for Writing The top annotation is relating the narrative to Alexander’s definition of an outsider. Bottom annotation is relating Ms. Foster to Brandt’s idea of a sponsor. Expect the Unexpected Top annotation relates narrative to sponsorship. The second annotation categorizes section as literacy-as-success. Blake Beverage The first annotation relates narratives to Alexander’s literacy-as-success category. The…

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Brandt: The top annotation is a connection to our previous study of Discourses. Discourses, like literacy skills, are typically influenced by economic status. The second annotation is an extension. Not only do the writings of ordinary citizens help us understand how they would “cope with life as they find it”, but they also teach us a lot about historical time periods. This is a predictive annotation. Sponsors are looking to get something in return for their time and efforts, so…

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Delpit, Lisa. “The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse.” Literacy, a Critical Sourcebook, edited by Ellen Cushman, Eugene Kintgen, Barry Kroll, Mike Rose, Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2001, pp. 545-554.   Gee, James. “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction.” Journal of Education, vol. 171, no.1, 1989, pp. 5-17.   Jordan, June. “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan.” Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 3, 1988, pp. 363-375.

Coordination 1) “In the passage, “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan” Delpit describes the pressure put on her students to convey an important message about justice and how hard it was for the class to decide how they wanted to present themselves through writing.”  I had already written this on my draft. This is a compound sentence because it’s linking the two equally important purposes of her writing. 2) “The writers were…

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