Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: January 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Shoeshine Man's Regrets

Weather permitting, we will discuss The Shoeshine Man's Regrets by Laura Lippman on Tuesday, Jan 29 at 7:30PM in the Community Room - Whole Foods Tamarac.

Find it on page 129 of the Best American Mystery Stories - 2005. You can read it on-line at a Russian site that might be violating copyright laws, beginning at the bottom of this page Lippman's Stories from Hardly New Her.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Zilkowski’s Theorem by Karl Iagnemma

Read Zilkowski’s Theorem by Karl Iagnemma and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

Tuesday Jan 15, 2013 7:30p to 9:00p

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 116, or on-line at: Zilkowski’s Theorem

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.