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What do you think, currently, about the primary threshold concept for this project unit? (“Writing is impacted by prior experiences.”) What do you think it means? Have you thought about this concept before reading about it in our textbook? If so, in what terms, or in what way, have you thought about this idea?
I feel that writing is impacted in a big way by our past experience's. If you went to a school that was focused on writing as a major subject, then chances are you will be good at writing. I have not really thought about this till i read this book. My past experience did not really get me ready to be a writer. My schooling was not really that focused on the writing part. While I did learn to read and write, I was just taught the basic rules of writing. 


Answer question 2 from page 99 of our textbook: “How does Brandt support her claim that sponsors always have something to gain from their sponsorship? Can you provide any examples from your own experience?” For the purpose of this discussion, you may focus more on answering the second part of this question.


Brandt says on page 68 that sponsors have self-interested reasons for sponsoring literacy. Why i agree with this the only real example I can relate this to would be my Family. My family had a very big interest in my literacy. If i did well in school then i would be only the second child of eight to graduate. This was a big deal for my family and it was a goal that we all wanted to achieve, and we did. 


Answer question 5 from page 99 of our textbook: “Giving the examples of Branch and Lopez as support, Brandt argues that race and class impact how much access people have to literacy sponsorship. Summarize the kinds of access Branch and Lopez had…and decide whether you agree with Brandt’s claim.” Why do you agree or disagree? Whether you agree or disagree, what other factors might impact the amount of access people have to literacy sponsorship?

Branch had very good access to the most up to date technology for that time frame. He had a computer by the age 12. So he had a pretty good sponsorship. Lopez maybe not so much. Lopez found herself teaching herself a Spanish, to read and write it. When she was 13 he father bought her a used word processing machine. I will say this i do not agree or disagree with either one. The struggle is real, even back then. You have to make do with what you have. Yes Branch might have had a computer and what not, but he still had to learn how to do thing. He still had to put in the work. Lopez had to work to get what she had. Her father gave her the best he could, the same a Branch, and she earned everything she could. I have respect for both sides of the house on this one. 


Think about your religious literacy. How was your faith, religious literacy, etc., sponsored for you? What does it mean to be sponsored in religious literacy?

To me to be religious sponsored is to be taught the scriptures at a young age. Just as 2 Timothy 3:15 says. As you grow up reading the scriptures you will live by them. You will know them. I did not grow up in a christian home. I did not start studying the word of God till 2015 and I have never looked back since. My wife is the one who introduced me to the bible, so she is my sponsor for that. 


Name one concept from this lesson that you most struggle(d) to understand. What about this concept, term, or idea is troublesome? What do you currently think it means, whether you feel certain or not?

I will be honest, I do not think I am struggling with this lesson. Maybe the only thing i struggled with was the infographic assignment, that is just because I am not very good with the technology and charts and what not. This is one of the easier for me to pick up. 
 

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