Brandt reading response:

Before you read:  In my local community, reading is promoted in school, I remember in elementary school and middle school we always were given silent reading time. The local libraries usually have book clubs for the young children and contests over the summer to see who reads the the most. A good reader is someone who can read and understand what they have read.

Summary: Brandt's article is about literacy, and how literacy is important in todays society. She uses case study to argue that sponsorships are what drive literacy. She says that literacy rates should be higher than they are and is promoting higher literacy rates. She says that literacy is one of the greatest profits of the 20th century. The audience of this article is any one that is literact and wants to improve their literacy or learn more thoughts or ideas about literacy.

Synthesis: I think this article can sorta relate to porter, porter talks about the Discourse community and how in a discourse community you are writing for a specific group, its kinda like what the sponsors do. This could also relate to Allen because Allen talks about peoples reasons for writing, and how people learn to write, and this article is about how people are impacted by literacy. I think it could also relate to Dias, because he talks about what it takes to be a good writer and Brandt is talking about what it means to be good at reading and to be literate.

Response	Quotation
I think this is true, the 20th century is really based off of literacy,  schooling, shopping, advertisements  tv programs, etc.	"Literacy looms as one of the great engines of profit and competitive advantage in the 20th century."
Citizens use literacy for everything, social media sites, applying for a job, education,  and as the quote says your status is really based of your literacy, illiterate people are look down on .	" 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 the goods as well as to the pursuit of  education, employment, civil rights, status."
I connected with this quote because while reading this article I too thought of how I learned to read and write, I thought about the different teachers I had and the activities we would always do in class to learn/ get excited about reading and writing.	"In the interviews, people explored in great detail their memories of learning to read and write across their lifetimes, focusing especially on the people, institutions , materials, and motivations involved."
I remember playing on recreational teams growing up that would have logos like that. Its a good way to promote them selves while sponsoring a team. We see these kinds of things all the time, sponsors for sporting events, ball parks, olympic games etc.	"Like little Leaguers who wear the logo of a local insurance agency on their uniforms, not out of the concern for enhancing the agency's image but as a means for getting to play ball, people throughout out history have acquired literacy pragmatically under the banner of others's causes

Meta Moment:  Brandt involves different types of literacies, how the effect us in life today, and how they are taught.  She talks about the sponsorships that influence the learning of reading and writing. She talked about the impact sponsorships have in improving literacy for some people.

Thoughts: I can relate to the article because it makes me think of the people that taught me reading and writing growing up.  I made me think of literacy in new ways.  I thought it was a lot of reading...