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

Friday, September 23, 2016

Sept 27: Grandmother’s Garden by Meena Alexander

Join us to discuss Grandmother’s Garden by Meena Alexander. Find it on page 75 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.
Our host facility has been providing coffee, tea, and fresh baked cookies!

We next discuss Mixed Up by Katherine Bagley. Find it on page 1 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2014

Find it on line athttp://www.audubon.org/magazine/climate-change-causing-some-mixed-wildlife

HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

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.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Sept 27: Grandmother’s Garden by Meena Alexander

Friday, September 9, 2016

Sept 13 @ 7:30 PM - Mixed Up by Katherine Bagley