Re: BHA: what's next

[Ruth Groff <rgroff@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I'm not opposed to dealing with more than one book at a time, I guess, but I
myself would only be able to engage with DPF.  So I'll confine myself to
suggestions about how we might proceed on that front.

I thought that our first go at DPF was useful, but ... well ... I think it
was a first go.  For me, the weakness of our earlier effort was that the
material was new enough to a lot of us that we were not as successful as we
might have been in explaining the key points clearly and precisely.  At
least, that's how it was for me.  I enjoyed people's posts, but I didn't
find that reading them was *that* much different from reading the original
text.  [I may *very* well just be bringing up the rear here,
comprehension-wise, but on the other hand there may be others who, like me,
still don't feel confident that they understand the thing very well.]

So I'll toss out the idea that we start over from the beginning, but that we
try to extract from each chapter, part, section, or whatever, the key new
idea(s), and hone in on them.  Rather than starting things off with fairly
lengthy re-statements of the text, we could try for each unit (chapter,
section, whatever) to work, as a group, to identify and explain (and
ultimately assess) the key points.  I'm imagining (in this little fantasy)
lots of posts that begin "Here's what I figure is going on here: ..."

What do people think?  Is this too elementary?

Warmly,
Ruth



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