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edu Your Name: Course #: Date:

Project #1: Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative Part 3: Literacy Sponsor Analysis

Instructions (Part 1 The Charts): Fill out the chart to describe a sponsor who has shaped your views of literacy. While you need to describe at least four sponsors, keep in mind that each sponsor should have their own chart. Also keep in mind that your responses should be detailed, and should be formulated as full sentences. Sponsor #1

1.) Identify the Sponsor: In the space below, identify a sponsor that you feel has impacted your current views and/or practices of reading, writing, and communication. If the sponsor is a person, give their name; if it is a text, object, or institution, describe what the sponsor is, and if necessary, where it is located. Your Response to Questions 1: Rap music and its different subgenres 1.) Making a Connection: In the space below, describe your relationship with or connection to the sponsor. If they are a person, how you know the person, and if the sponsor is a text, object, or institution, provide context about when or how you interacted with this sponsor. Your Response to Questions 2: Rap Music has shaped my influence of literacy, in ways that I can always listen to a certain song that can describe my mood at a certain time in my life. The different messages conveyed through the beats, lyrics, and flow give me a different feeling when i play a song, sometimes motivating and other solid songs. 1.) Tracing Experiences: In the space below, briefly describe experiences or memories that you have had with this sponsor related to literacy. While these experiences can be positive or negative, try to identify was many experiences as you can that you feel impacted your current view or literacy. Your Response to Questions 3: Different artists such as 50 cent, Childish Gambino, and Dj Khaled portray different messages, it can be interpreted through their beats, their lyrics, and most importantly, their flow. 1.) Tracing Emotions: In the space below, briefly describe your emotional response to each of the experiences and/or memories you accounted for in question three. Were your experiences happy, sad, discouraging, encouraging, inspiring, terrifying, etc. Describe the emotional response you had or have, and explain why. Your Response to Questions 4: I remembered reading some of the Rapper Tupacs poems, the one specific to me was The Rose hat Grew from Concrete

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1.) Ideologies of Literacy: In the space below, consider how this sponsor influenced the way you think about literacy, and briefly describe the ideas, views, and/or beliefs of literacy that you gained from this sponsor. Your Response to Questions 5: It definitely broadened my horizon in music, and made me recognize that since there were so many different sub genres in Rap music, I could make the connection to the literacy genres that theres many accounts of sub genres

Sponsor #2

1.) Identify the Sponsor: In the space below, identify a sponsor that you feel has impacted your current views and/or practices of reading, writing, and communication. If the sponsor is a person, give their name; if it is a text, object, or institution, describe what the sponsor is, and if necessary, where it is located. Your Response to Questions 1: My 10th grade civics and economics teacher, Mr. Duckworth 1.) Making a Connection: In the space below, describe your relationship with or connection to the sponsor. If they are a person, how you know the person, and if the sponsor is a text, object, or institution, provide context about when or how you interacted with this sponsor. Your Response to Questions 2: Personally, I hated Mr. Duckworth as a teacher, I never let it be known between me and him that I hated him so much. 1.) Tracing Experiences: In the space below, briefly describe experiences or memories that you have had with this sponsor related to literacy. While these experiences can be positive or negative, try to identify was many experiences as you can that you feel impacted your current view or literacy. Your Response to Questions 3: The biggest experience that Ive had dealt with the summer assignments. The hardest summer assignment that Ive had was reading this book called The Last of the Mohicans. I tried reading the first fifteen pages, and I gave up, and never wanted to read the book again. My mom even tried to help me read the book, she skimmed a few pages, and wasnt too sure about how to approach the book either. I was stumped for the summer assignment, and I gave up.

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1.) Tracing Emotions: In the space below, briefly describe your emotional response to each of the experiences and/or memories you accounted for in question three. Were your experiences happy, sad, discouraging, encouraging, inspiring, terrifying, etc. Describe the emotional response you had or have, and explain why. Your Response to Questions 4: I was mainly angry, frustrated, and upset about reading this book 1.) Ideologies of Literacy: In the space below, consider how this sponsor influenced the way you think about literacy, and briefly describe the ideas, views, and/or beliefs of literacy that you gained from this sponsor. Your Response to Questions 5: That experience with the book The Last of the Mohicans shaped my influence of literacy by introducing to texts I hated. It also influenced me in school reading because I feared that every book at that grade level and above would be much tougher than that book, and I could barely get past the first twenty pages.

Sponsor #3

1.) Identify the Sponsor: In the space below, identify a sponsor that you feel has impacted your current views and/or practices of reading, writing, and communication. If the sponsor is a person, give their name; if it is a text, object, or institution, describe what the sponsor is, and if necessary, where it is located. Your Response to Questions 1: My 12th grade teacher Mrs. Johnson 1.) Making a Connection: In the space below, describe your relationship with or connection to the sponsor. If they are a person, how you know the person, and if the sponsor is a text, object, or institution, provide context about when or how you interacted with this sponsor.

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Your Response to Questions 2: Ms. Johnson was my 12th grade english teacher, and was my last english teacher for my High school 1.) Tracing Experiences: In the space below, briefly describe experiences or memories that you have had with this sponsor related to literacy. While these experiences can be positive or negative, try to identify was many experiences as you can that you feel impacted your current view or literacy. Your Response to Questions 3: Most of the work that Ms. Johnson had for us was a constant, stream of busy work. We did a lot of work in her class, including dictionary definition quizzes. The work piled up over he year, and many of the students, including myself, felt very frustrated and wanted to get a good grade so we wouldnt have to be held back a year. I started to learn more about just finishing assignments to completion in order to keep it. My grade slightly dropped a bit due to this, however I received no Fs because I turned in every assignment.

1.) Tracing Emotions: In the space below, briefly describe your emotional response to each of the experiences and/or memories you accounted for in question three. Were your experiences happy, sad, discouraging, encouraging, inspiring, terrifying, etc. Describe the emotional response you had or have, and explain why. Your Response to Questions 4: I felt frustated, tired, and I was excited once it was nearing the end of the semester. 1.) Ideologies of Literacy: In the space below, consider how this sponsor influenced the way you think about literacy, and briefly describe the ideas, views, and/or beliefs of literacy that you gained from this sponsor. Your Response to Questions 5: I learned that English could be a demanding class, and that my level of work that I was turning in wasnt enough, that I would have to work harder, and at times, bite my tongue and just finish an assignment without putting my own creativity into the assigment.

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Sponsor #4

1.) Identify the Sponsor: In the space below, identify a sponsor that you feel has impacted your current views and/or practices of reading, writing, and communication. If the sponsor is a person, give their name; if it is a text, object, or institution, describe what the sponsor is, and if necessary, where it is located. Your Response to Questions 1: My brother Konata 1.) Making a Connection: In the space below, describe your relationship with or connection to the sponsor. If they are a person, how you know the person, and if the sponsor is a text, object, or institution, provide context about when or how you interacted with this sponsor. Your Response to Questions 2: (Compose your response here) 1.) Tracing Experiences: In the space below, briefly describe experiences or memories that you have had with this sponsor related to literacy. While these experiences can be positive or negative, try to identify was many experiences as you can that you feel impacted your current view or literacy. Your Response to Questions 3: (Compose your response here) 1.) Tracing Emotions: In the space below, briefly describe your emotional response to each of the experiences and/or memories you accounted for in question three. Were your experiences happy, sad, discouraging, encouraging, inspiring, terrifying, etc. Describe the emotional response you had or have, and explain why. Your Response to Questions 4: (Compose your response here) 1.) Ideologies of Literacy: In the space below, consider how this sponsor influenced the way you think about literacy, and briefly describe the ideas, views, and/or beliefs of literacy that you gained from this sponsor. Your Response to Questions 5: (Compose your response here)

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Your Name: Course #: Date: Project #1: Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative Part 3: Literacy Sponsor Analysis Instructions (Part 2 Reflection): Now that you have documented details about each sponsor, I want you to reflect on what you have learned. In the space below, compose a reflection in which you consider some of the following questions and compose a short reflective essay:
Did you learn anything about how you learned to read and write that you

did not know before?

What ideas and beliefs about literacy stood out the most during this ac-

tivity?
Have your feelings about your sponsors remained the same over time,

or have they changed?

If you were to compare one literacy sponsor to another, do you find that

the views and beliefs they have are in agreement with one another, or is there tension between beliefs and values?
What was the most significant discovery that you made while complet-

ing this activity.

(Compose your response here)

Course: English 1101 Instructor: Anthony Borrero Email: Aborrero@uncc.edu