Brandt

QFADJ:
1. Brandt defines literacy sponsor as something that helps people reach out and help them with literacy skills. These people or institutions can help someone greatly. Especially with language and other different skills you need in order to read and write, such as vocabulary. These people or institutions can help you better understand media and advertisements and different usage of them. Some characteristics of literacy sponsors are school, family, church, work, family, and values.

2.Brandt discusses that sponsors have a big impact on your life. If you give them something, you'll receive something in return and vise-versa. Sponsors I had in life are my parents and teachers, without them I wouldn't have been given the experience to go to college. They helped support me and get me through everything in order to get to where I am today.

4. When Brandt talks about "stratified" she means strategies that will help benefit and influence literacy skills in order to help you with more of an experience when reading. If you have a good sponsor, you will benefit more from it.

Applying and exploring ideas:
1. When thinking back to my experiences based off of Brandts ideas, I had many sponsors while growing up.Sponsors that thought me were my parents was school, church, and girl scouts. My parents thought me all the rules, while teachers and school thought me how to read and girl scouts gave me morals that help me with people today and helping others.

2.Looking back I would have to say my biggest sponsors were my parents. They never really limited me from things. I remember some kids that I grew up with were not allowed to watch Rugrats and that was always so confusing to me. But, looking back on it now, that was their parents version of literacy. They probably thought it was inappropriate. How my parents handled stuff like that, was I was never allowed to say any bad words, such as "hate" or use God's name in vane. The thought of going against what my parents told me to do terrified me.

Meta Moment:
I was never really familiar with literacy and how much it has an impact on me today. It's very interesting to look back and see how different people, groups, and institutions have impacted you in different ways.