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It started as a homework assignment.
We had vocabulary words and we were given a sentence...
...the beginning of a myth.
As I was writing a couple of sentences I got the idea for the whole thing.
So I sketched the idea for the whole story out actually in English
Then I gave it to the professor and she was said Oh, Kelly Elementary School has an immersion program and they need material...
It'd be great if we could make a little book, if we could get someone to illustrate it...
So we found Yevgenia and we asked her to please help us illustrate this book...
Michelle just gave me two pages of what she wrote...
and I had to divide it and just kind of make something up for each scene...
It got re-arranged a thousand times...
It was interesting for me cause I had in my mind what things might look like.
And I'm writing what things I see.
And its actually part of the process that was really interesting to see what things I saw, she saw...
And what of what I saw she saw differently.
Yes, the book the Giant's Wealth was not only exercise for Michelle and Yevgenia
It became for them a big achievement.
And it was not only the language, again as I said, but also they could bring something to the Russian Program at Portland Public Schools...
And our visit to Kelly Elementary School was a very special event for us.
...reading in Russian...
So going there, reading the book with children and the discussion... all of these questions that the children asked Michelle and Yevgenia
I saw big enthusiasm from the kid's side...
And we hope that from this group we will see our future students here at Portland State...
And that is exactly the goal of Flagship.