Ursula Le Guin: Short Stories Lesson Plan

Read “Vaster than Empires and More Slow” and “The Wife’s Story.”

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

“Vaster than Empires and More Slow”

In “Vaster than Empires and More Slow,” the world of the story is such that people volunteer to go out to survey other planets, leaving their families and homes behind. The...