Then, we're going to explore a concept called barriers to entry. This is a concept that makes it hard for people to understand other communities. For example, let's look at two newspaper websites:
In order to gain entrance and understand a culture (whether it be a city, country, school or neighborhood), we need to know some of the cultural codes, which included vocabulary, how you act and how you look.
We'll break into six groups. There will be three texts (chapters from The House on Mango Street (pgs. 28-30, 84-85, & 106-107) Brent Staples's "Black Men and Public Space" (pgs. 297-300) and a Newsweek blog article). Two groups will read each text and answer these four questions:
- What is the big problem in what you read?
- What is preventing that problem from being solved?
- Has this ever happened in your life?
- How can somebody solve it?
You will answer these questions as a group and then we will get together to have a large group discussion.
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