Teacher Guide

Ursula Le Guin: Short Stories Lesson Plan

Introduction to Ursula Le Guin: Short Stories

This teaching guide offers information, activities, and more on some of Ursula K. Le Guin’s most popular short stories. In a unit based on these short stories, students will explore space travel, engage in dystopia, meet androgynous characters, be surprised by werewolves, and more.

The following stories covered in this guide can be found in Le Guin’s short story collection The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975):

· “The Word of Unbinding”

· “The Rule of Names”

· “Winter’s King”

· “Nine Lives”

· “Vaster than Empires and More Slow”

· “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

· “The Day Before the Revolution”

“The Silence of Asonu” and “The New Atlantis” are both available as stand alone stories on...

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