Charles Swinson

Reverse Outline of Sponsors of Literacy

Framing the Reading

o Brandt is an expert on literacy
She has written many books about literacy
o People do not become literate on their own
Literacy is sponsored people, circumstances, and institutions
Literacy sponsors are everywhere
o Literacy Sponsors
Intentions are not always selfless
o Uniqueness
Your literacy can make you unique
Your literacy experiences may often be shared with others as well
The Roman Catholic Church was a big literacy sponsor in the Middle
Ages
o Apprentices
Apprentices experiences have allowed literacy to grow
Sponsorship
o Sponsors
Influential
Often thought as powerful, richer, and more knowledgeable
o Forms of literacy sponsorship
Economic, political, and educational
Sponsorship and access
o Opportunities and access
Unequal conditions of literacy sponsorship
o Raymond Branch
Privileged
Majority-race membership, male gender, and high-end socioeconomic
family profile
Easier opportunity for learning
o Dora Lopez
Underprivileged
Culturally unsubsidized ethnic minority, female gender, resource-poor
Had to reach further for learning opportunity
Sponsorship and the Rise in Literacy Standards
o Powerful sponsors

Literacy as a resource becomes available to ordinary people through more

powerful sponsors
o Literacy transition
From post-World War II economy to an information-making society
o Dwayne Lowery
Graduated at bottom of his class in high school
Lowery went from assembly line worker to a field representative for a
major public employees union
o History
The older generation passes on their literacy resources to the newer

generation.
Sponsorship and Appropriation in Literacy Learning
o Sponsors enable and hinder literacy activity
Sponsors often create new literacy requirements while discrediting older
ones
o Misappropriation
Always possible with literacy transmissions
o Carol White and Sarah Steele
Like most women, had little opportunity for workplace advancement

during their time.

Both of their narratives provide diverse elements of literacy appropriation
Teaching and Dynamics of Sponsorship
o Necessity of sponsors
Sponsors can make writing frustrating but are important to the existence of
writing
o Changes in literacy
Literacy is conservative and ruthlessly in demand for change at the same
time
o Pursuit of literacy
Literacy is in pursuit of students
Sponsors are there to help guide and assist individuals in their pursuit of
literacy