1.) Essay from Blake Beverage: Annotations include a question and relationship between his text and Alexanders/Brandts ideas of “Sponsorship” and “succeeding.”

2.) Essay from Hannah D: Annotations include a question and a relationship between her text and Alexanders/Brandt’s ideas of Sponsorship and “victim.”

3.) Essay from Sam Michaud: Annotations show relationship between text and Brandt’s idea of sponsorship; essay exemplifies a great example of sponsorship – Ms. Foster (her second grade teacher) helped the author gain her passion for writing at a young age.

4.) Essay from Sam Michaud: Annotations include another relationship between text and Alexanders ideas of “prodigy” and “success”.  There is also a second relation on the page below the first that talks about the connection between the text and Brandt’s idea about the connection between sponsor influence on children.

5.) Essay from Kayla Ferrell: Annotation shows relationship between her text and Alexander’s idea of “victim” writing.  The text also shows a similarity between Brandt’s shared story about a student in his class who lost interest in writing due to the criticism of a teacher. Ferrells story shows the same idea: her Freshman year English teacher made writing unenjoyable for her.