Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: May 2012

Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

Tuesday, May 29 at 7:30 PM
Contact me, Mike Levin, for a PDF copy formatted and line-numbered. I started from http://www.spacewesterns.com/articles/105/ .
This moving science fiction story is a 1950's estimation of the perils of space flight and the precautions (or total lack thereof) taken to avoid those perils.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Schedule

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Regarding Delmonico:

When Handler says, "There are some who can’t stand to stay in a room like that..." is he talking about the fictional bar (Slow Night), a house of mourning, or a state of mind?

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Read Delmonico by Daniel Handler and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.
When: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:30 PM.
The work is found in The Best American Mystery Stories - 2005 - page 33.

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.