Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: February 2016

Friday, February 26, 2016

Tues, Mar 1 @ 7:30 PM - The Call of Blood by Jess Row

We next discuss The Call of Blood by Jess Row on Tuesday, Mar 1 at 7:30 PM at HighPointe

Find it on page 276 of Best American Short Stories – 2011

A PDF copy of The Call of Blood is available from Harvard Review.

Our host facility has been providing us with coffee and fresh baked cookies.

Friday, February 12, 2016

Attached is the updated schedule that show us finishing both our Short Story and our Science/Nature collections.

Please think about what we should read next. The Great American series books have worked well. We could continue with them. We could return to our Great Books roots. See http://store.greatbooks.org/colleges-book-groups.html

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.