Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Housewifely Arts - Tues, Nov 4 @ 7;30 PM

Read Housewifely Arts by Megan M. Bergman and join us for a discussion in the Private Dining Room at HighPointe Assisted Living (NE Corner I-25 & Hampden) at 7:30 PM on Tues, Nov 4.

Find this reading on page 14 in The Best American Short Stories – 2011 edited by Geraldine Brooks.
PDF download of Housewifely Arts

Friday, October 17, 2014

Schedule

Our Body the Ecosystem - Tues, Oct 21 @ 7:30 PM - HighPointe

Read Our Body the Ecosystem by Virginia Hughes and join us for a discussion @ HighPointe Assisted Living [NE Corner – Hampden Ave & I-25]

Find it in The Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2012, page 8. OnLine: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/our-body-ecosystem-understanding-interplay-between-man-and-microbe?nopaging=1

Friday, October 3, 2014

Ceiling by Chimamando Ngozi Adichie - Tues, Oct 7 @ 7:30 PM

Read Ceiling by Chimamando Ngozi Adichie and join us for a discussion in the Private Dining Room @ HighPointe Assisted Living [NE Corner – Hampden Ave & I-25].

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stories - 2011, page 1

See the author's TED talk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.