Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: January 2020

Friday, January 31, 2020

Tues, Feb 4 @ 7:30 PM

Please join us to discuss "The Midnight Zone" by Lauren Groff.

Find it on page 147 of The Best American Short Stories -- 2017

Read it on line at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/23/the-midnight-zone-by-lauren-groff

Friday, January 17, 2020

CANCELLED - I have no voice -- Tues, Jan 21 @ 7:30 PM

Look for this 4 Aug 2020 when I do the next schedule update.

Please join us to discuss "Inside The Breakthrough Starshot Mission to Alpha Centauri" by Amy Finkbeiner .
Find it on page 223 of The Best American Science & Nature Writing -- 2017.

Friday, January 3, 2020

Tues, Jan 7 @ 7:30 PM

Please join us to discuss "Ugly" by Mary Gordon.

Find it on page 126 of The Best American Short Stories -- 2017

Download a PDF copy of "Ugly" from https://yalereview.yale.edu/volume-104-1

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.