1  Sponsors can do many things for students, one of the positive actions a sponsor can do for a student is teach them how to write. In the Brandt reading pg (557), he mentions how people like teacher, editors and influential authors come up the most when people recalled their literacy learning. The word regulate, in terms of a sponsor, is used to control and guide the students work. To direct the work of a student, to fix the work of a student to improve the literature aspect of them.  The word suppress in terms of a sponsor is to maybe hold back some of the work of a student that isn’t up to par. To not express the work of a student from public scrutiny.

2        Because it’s boring to a lot of people understandably. It’s not enjoyable for most people to read or write. It’s more of a task/work than anything. People won’t just sit down and start to write, for the sake of writing. Maybe if people found something interesting to them, it would motivate them to write or read about it.

3 Gee might explain the difference between affluent and the poor in literacy as someone who is set up for success, and others who aren’t because of the situation they grew up in. Gee (pg 17) “fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to ct of violence in Grosvenor Square” I think what Gee is saying, is that when the poor have more access to education they become more powerful, challenging the upper class.