Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: January 2018

Friday, January 19, 2018

Jan 23 @ 7 PM

Join us to discuss David and Bathsheba (II Samuel 11-12). Find this in The Soul of the Text -- An Anthology of Jewish Literature - Great Books Foundation - page 57.

Join us to discuss TV as Birth Control by Fred Pearce.

Find it on page 213of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2014

Read it at http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2013/09/tv-as-birth-control/

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, January 19, 2018

Jan 23 @ 7 PM

Friday, January 5, 2018

Jan 9 @ 7 PM - TV as Birth Control