Sponsors of Literacy

I attended 3 different types of schools for elementary, middle and high school.  In each, I learned a lot, but each sponsor looking back put their stress on different parts of literacy.  I attended a public school for k-5 where I learned all my basics.  Each year I felt was so different from the next, but when I reached 4th and 5th grade, I had the option to be in the "gifted and talented" program.  A class taught by the same teacher, in the same room, with 4th and 5th graders for two years.  I was pushed to excel and I did.  At this point however, other classrooms disliked ours and I was constantly treated rudely by others.  Being in that class though had such a huge impact and I left being able to read and write and actually analyze things so much better than if I had stayed in the normal classes.  Middle school, I attended a private school.  It was small, with just 18 kids in my class. It was a different type of sponsor as well.  It was even more personal therefore I felt like I took a lot out of my learning experiences in middle school.  It was probably my most influential sponsor I had.  In high school, moved suburbs and attended a public high school which had 400 kids in my class and 1600 in the school.  My personal sponsors had left, and I had to open myself up to the high pace of all different types of people.  Everyone was on completely different literacy levels in the school it felt like, but Worthington was one of Ohio's best school systems.  We weren't allowed to do class rank because the average GPA was so high, and we also had no class valedictorians.  Living in the fast paced, competitive time, it really allowed me to use my literacy techniques from past years to develop the new.

I not only attended school and consider that apart of what I am literate with, I also feel like my parents, grandparents, friends, social media and ballet effected me to be able to adapt and understand when to use certain type of literacies.  My grandma especially taught me a lot of manners and I utilize those when I am in certain situations.  I'd say I am literate with understanding when to be proper/polite and when I can relax.  And also the most interesting sponsor would be ballet.  It has it's own everything, language, expectations, slang, technologies.  It's learning to speak and understand things that outside people looking in have no idea about.  Being literate in something not everyone understands is was makes us unique.  But education through school is the most important sponsor, because without that, I wouldn't even be able to understand my ballet sponsor or any other secondary place.