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

Friday, June 18, 2021

Zoom Tues, June 22, 2021 @ 7:30 PM (MT)

Join us, please, to discuss A Framework for Utopia by Robert Nozick. Find it on page 173 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.

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Friday, June 4, 2021

Zoom: Tues June 8 @ 7:30 PM (MT)

Please join us Tues June 8 @ 7:30 PM (MT) to discuss The Third Tower by Deborah Eisenberg.

Find it on page 67 of The Best American Short Stores - 2019.

Read it on line if you have a free (or paid for) JSTOR account.

Our story is included in Eisenberg's collection: Your Duck is My Duck. Here is a link to an interview:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/magazine/deborah-eisenberg-chronicler-of-american-insanity.html

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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.