Selection of American K-12 Outstanding Chinese Works (May 2020)

About the Student
Yao Wang ( ) began to study Chinese in
kindergarten, and she grew up in a family that values
Chinese culture and traditions. She is a middle school
student and studies Chinese at a Sunday Chinese
school. This was a great piece of writing done by Yao and
it shows the great effort she has put into learning for so
many years.
Assignment Guidelines
(Instructor: Lei He)
This piece was written last year when we wrote about If
You Could Transform Yourself Into… All the students
used their imagination and told stories that we had never
thought of. Students first brainstormed various ideas
who/what they want to transform into, from imaginary characters like a bird, a cloud etc. to real
persons like the CEO of Apple company, the principal of a school and so on. Then, they were
guided by the teacher on how to structure and organize their ideas into writing. Students enjoyed
expressing and imagining their stories that and also relating their imagination and dreams with
their lives.