Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: March 2023

Friday, March 17, 2023

Tues, March 21 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Godmother Tea by Selena Anderson and join us to discuss the story.

Find it on page 1 of The Best American Short Stories of 2020.

Or read it online at:

https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-106/godmother-tea

Contact me for the zoom link.

Friday, March 3, 2023

Tues, March 7 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss On the Blackness of the Panther by Teju Cole.

Find it on page 36 of The Good Immigrant edited by Shukla & Suleyman.

On line it is at: https://level.medium.com/on-the-blackness-of-the-panther-f76d771b0e80

This includes the text and a 20 minute machine reading audio.

Here is our Zoom link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87543556803?pwd=cHRRK3NTTWFCZTh2SUQrSHZaTEVpdz09

Basic Guidelines for Shared Inquiry

Read the selection carefully before participating in the discussion. This ensures that all participants are equally prepared to talk about the ideas in the work.
Most of us need to read short stories more than once.
Support your ideas with evidence from the text. This keeps the discussion focused on understanding the selection and enables the group to weigh textual support for different answers.
Discuss the ideas in the selection and try to understand them fully before exploring issues that go beyond the selection. Reflecting on the ideas in the text and the evidence to support them makes the exploration of related issues more productive.
Listen to other participants and respond to them directly. Directing your comments and questions to other group members, not always to the leader, will make the discussion livelier and more dynamic.
Expect the leader to only ask questions. Effective leaders help participants develop their own ideas, with everyone gaining a new understanding in the process. Participants should look to the leader for questions, not answers.