Brodkey's Literacy Sponsors Map(ish)

This is sort of like a map...

What were the economic/political conflicts or contexts? 
- "working class white girl"
- she felt some class conflict because of how the middle class was emphasized in all the books she read
- she mentions the prejudice against black people and Catholics very briefly, but she was neither, so that didn't affect her
Who were their sponsors? 
- her family, who allowed her to be constantly reading instead of doing chores
- her local library, who let her read the adult books after she'd gone through all the ones for kids
- her teacher who would punish her for reading ahead in the books for class
- her school that put her on the college track without really asking
- her neighbors who let her interview them for the "census" she took as a child
What literacies were valued? 
- Academic, by her school
- grammatical, she recalls being obsessed with grammar rules while learning to write
- a social-centered writing, like when she took her "census". No one instructed her to do that, she just did it because it was enjoyable, and she enjoyed interacting with her neighbors
How was it learned? 
- most of her learning was done in the school, where she learned strict rules of grammar, not to read ahead, and learned the formulaic "inverted pyramid" style of essay writing
What resources were available? Who provided these resources? How difficult was it to access these resources?
- her library was a community-provided establishment, and she seemed to have no trouble accessing it because she read so much.
- her school system, was a community-provided establishment, and she had to access it. She was put on the college track and no one really asked her about it.