Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: April 2021

Friday, April 23, 2021

Zoom: Tues April 27 @ 7:30 PM (MT)

Join us to discuss No More Than a Bubble by Jamel Brinkley.

Find it on page 47 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019

Zoom Link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726732176?pwd=d2lsMHhTRU9VcjZNVHBzZXlRSkRRQT09#success

Meeting ID: 897 2673 2176

Password: books

Friday, April 9, 2021

Schedule update

Tues April 13 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom

Join us to discuss Best Life Possible beginning with The Works of Mencius, Book I.

Find it on page 137 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.

Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726732176?pwd=d2lsMHhTRU9VcjZNVHBzZXlRSkRRQT09#success

Meeting ID: 897 2673 2176
Password: books

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.