MYP Language Celebrations!
MYP 1 English LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
MYP 1 English Language A students recently completed an engaging unit titled Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in the Stories of Oscar Wilde, exploring how aesthetic literature uses style not only to fill life with art, but also to challenge what society tells us we should value. Throughout the unit, students deepened their understanding of literary techniques and strengthened their analytical skills by independently selecting and critiquing analysing some of Wilde’s most complex short stories, presenting how specific techniques shape audience response, support authorial purpose, and develop theme.
Highlights from the unit included a lively challenge to identify and analyse literary techniques in independent reading texts, each technique forming a link in a growing paper chain, with the winning chain ending up twice as tall as its creator. Students also engaged in an early morning campus walk where they captured aesthetic photographs and reflected on the connections between visual beauty and literary artistry. Well done, M1!
MYP 2/3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AQUISITION
MYP 2/3 English Language Acquisition students explored the theme of change, engaging thoughtfully with how change shapes both our inner lives and the world around us. Through discussion, reading, and reflection, students examined global challenges such as war and climate change alongside more personal experiences of change and character development, considering how these shifts impact individuals, communities, and society as a whole.
As a culminating task, students prepared and delivered an oral presentation in the PechaKucha style, introducing one personal, one local, and one global change. This dynamic presentation format, originating in Japan, uses short, timed slides to encourage clarity, focus, and confident communication. For students learning in an additional language, PechaKucha offered a powerful opportunity to practice expressing meaningful ideas concisely, supported by carefully chosen visuals.
MYP 3
MYP Chinese Language A learning at Amerasia is deeply embedded within the broad and rigorous framework of the IB MYP, offering students rich opportunities to engage with language, culture, and identity in meaningful ways. Through their recent inquiry-based unit, “Words That Carry Warmth — Empathy Through Sensory Imagery in Prose,” students explored Chinese literature beyond surface-level comprehension, developing the ability to analyse imagery, artistic mood, and emotional expression while creating original, authentic writing. As part of the creative writing task “Disappearing Landscape,” students selected places from their own lives that are changing or have already disappeared and that carry cultural or collective memory, expressing their emotional connections through vivid, concrete description. Drawing on everyday experiences, local culture, and familiar Qingdao landmarks such as Xiaomai Island and the Tangqiu Festival, their writing remained authentic, personal, and deeply connected to real life — strengthening both linguistic skill and cultural understanding while reflecting the depth and quality of Chinese language learning at Amerasia.
