CoL49 Group Reading

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 23:30:06 UTC 2024


Dear Joseph---

Guidelines like this, the architecture of the Group Read are all I am
following...and I hope carefully--even when self-rushed.
I do not care what any others think.

Mark

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to suggest that we keep chapter divisions noted for context,
> and in case particular book page numbers don’t match
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 11:00 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Divide each CHAPTER (adjust to your book) into sections of about 5 pages
>> gives the following:
>>
>> Pages: 9-183 = 174 total pages.
>>
>> 174 pages/5= 35 segments +/-
>>
>> Chapter 1: 9-22 (13 pages - 2 sections)
>>
>> Chapter 2: 23-43 (20 pages - 4 sections)
>>
>> Chapter 3: 44-80 (36 pages - 7 sections)
>>
>> So, if we want to make it about 5 pages per week (divide chapters into
>> nearest equal #) starting April 30, we get the following start:
>>
>> CHAPTER 1:
>>
>> 4/29:  p9-15.   JK
>>
>> 5/6:  p16-22.   Mark
>>
>> CHAPTER 2:
>>
>> 5/13:  p23-29. David
>>
>> 5/20:  p30-35
>>
>> 5/27:  p36-43
>>
>> CHAPTER 3:
>>
>> 6/3:  p44-50
>>
>> 6/10:  p51-56
>>
>> 6/17:  p57-64
>>
>> 6/24:  p65-73
>>
>> 7/1:   p74-80
>>
>> CHAPTER 4:
>>
>> 7/8:  p81- (etc)
>>
>>
>> Volunteers for ALL of these slots should be filled before we start, or
>> this read is bound to fail FAST.  Also, it might be better to *speed up the
>> pace* (10 pages per week?), or people are likely to drop out from boredom.
>>
>


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