Literacy Sponsor
Comp 1 1203
11/13/13
My Father, my Literacy Sponsor Before I took Freshman English 1203 class, I never knew what a literacy sponsor was. I didn’t know that my father was in fact my literacy sponsor either. Reading the book Writing about Writing has fully helped me to understand what a literacy sponsor is. One of the Authors in the book, Deborah Brandt claims a literacy sponsor to be, “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way”(334). The literacy event that happened to me was negative, but has changed the rest of my life for the better. I can’t imagine what my life would be like today if I didn’t follow my dreams instead of my literacy sponsors dreams. I can still remember the first couple incidents that happened to me that started to shift my path of life. On May 26, 2011 I graduated from high school. It was a day full of happiness, sadness, and anxiety. I planned on taking time off of school since I have been in it for about 12 years straight. I planned on taking lots of trips with my friends and just experiencing new things in the new world. I also knew that if I did go back right away I wouldn’t succeed to my full potential. I simply wasn’t ready. At my grad party, I got into an argument with my brother, because I was defending my cousin. It soon escalated into a full on brawl between me, my brother, my boyfriend at the time, my father, and some friends. I made my way from outside where everyone was yelling at each other into my room. My father stormed into my roomed, where he proceeded to keep yelling at me telling me how I always screw everything up and I felt so overwhelmed that I just wanted to leave. Every ounce of me tried to escape that mad house but he wouldn’t let me leave until the cops arrived. I packed up a few things and left to stay with my boyfriend. A couple of days later I went and got the
11/13/13
My Father, my Literacy Sponsor Before I took Freshman English 1203 class, I never knew what a literacy sponsor was. I didn’t know that my father was in fact my literacy sponsor either. Reading the book Writing about Writing has fully helped me to understand what a literacy sponsor is. One of the Authors in the book, Deborah Brandt claims a literacy sponsor to be, “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way”(334). The literacy event that happened to me was negative, but has changed the rest of my life for the better. I can’t imagine what my life would be like today if I didn’t follow my dreams instead of my literacy sponsors dreams. I can still remember the first couple incidents that happened to me that started to shift my path of life. On May 26, 2011 I graduated from high school. It was a day full of happiness, sadness, and anxiety. I planned on taking time off of school since I have been in it for about 12 years straight. I planned on taking lots of trips with my friends and just experiencing new things in the new world. I also knew that if I did go back right away I wouldn’t succeed to my full potential. I simply wasn’t ready. At my grad party, I got into an argument with my brother, because I was defending my cousin. It soon escalated into a full on brawl between me, my brother, my boyfriend at the time, my father, and some friends. I made my way from outside where everyone was yelling at each other into my room. My father stormed into my roomed, where he proceeded to keep yelling at me telling me how I always screw everything up and I felt so overwhelmed that I just wanted to leave. Every ounce of me tried to escape that mad house but he wouldn’t let me leave until the cops arrived. I packed up a few things and left to stay with my boyfriend. A couple of days later I went and got the
Cited: Sherman, Alexie. “The Joy Of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me.” Writing about Writing. Eds. Wardle and Downs. Boston:Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. 363-365. Wardle, Elizabeth, and Doug Downs, eds. Writing about Writing. Boston:Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. Print.