Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: August 2017

Are humans causing the next mass extinction?

Join us to discuss The Lost World by Elizabeth Kolbert. Find it on page 135 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2014

Read it in two parts at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/the-lost-world-2 and http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-lost-world-3

HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Friday, August 4, 2017

Aug 8: Diógenes by Pablo Helguera

Join us to discuss Diógenes by Pablo Helguera.

Find it on page 219 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.

Our host facility has been providing coffee and fresh baked cookies!

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, August 18, 2017

Aug 22: The Lost World by Elizabeth Kolber

Friday, August 4, 2017

Aug 8: Diógenes by Pablo Helguera