Images: Suburban Students Remember Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alina Armenta, 6, did a drawing and essay in Mrs. Ann Casters 1st grade class to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. at Robert Frost Elementary School in Mt. Prospect.
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Teacher Mrs. Ann Caster and Evan Valenzuela ,7, listen as 1st grader Carolina Dankowski ,7, reads her essay about Martin Luther Kings I have a dream speech and how to make the world a more peaceful place.
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Darius Carney-Thomas ,14, an 8th grade student at South Middle School in Arlington Heights , talks about the first black Marine as part of his Martin Luther King Jr. project. Darius aspires to become a Marine as well.
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Laura Mickeviciute ,13, Melisa Featherstone ,13, and Heather Pecho, 13, 8th grade students at South Middle School in Arlington Heights, talk about their creation which depicts the Rosa Parks bus and where she sat as part of their Martin Luther King Jr. project.
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Laura Mickeviciute ,13, Melisa Featherstone ,13, and Heather Pecho, 13, 8th grade students at South Middle School in Arlington Heights, talk about their creation which depicts the Rosa Parks bus and where she sat as part of their Martin Luther King Jr. project.
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Laura Mickeviciute ,13, right, and Heather Pecho ,13, 8th grade students at South Middle School in Arlington Heights talk about their creation which depicts the Rosa Parks bus and where she sat as part of their Martin Luther King Jr. project.
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Second-grade students at Fabyan Elementary School walk past one of the projects they made to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the school in Geneva .
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Students sign a banner made for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Fabyan Elementary School in Geneva .
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Students at Jack London Middle School attached a hand-written note to scarves they made to donate to a homeless shelter.
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A Jack London Middle School seventh-grader is blindfolded before being guiding through an obstacle course to explore diversity during events conducted by Hands On suburban Chicago to honor Martin Luther King Day at the school in Wheeling .
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Patty Neuswanger, schools and youth program manager with Hands On suburban Chicago, gives cutting instructions to seventh-graders as students make scarves from fleece to donate to a homeless shelter during events to honor Martin Luther King Day at Jack London Middle School in Wheeling .
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Students at Jack London Middle School make scarves from fleece to donate to a homeless shelter .
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Payal Sutaria, 7, of Gurnee shows off her project on Martin Luther King Jr. at Woodland Elementary West in Gages Lake. Second grade students in Nancy Constants class read books and wrote essays about how Martin Luther King changed the world.
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Second grade teacher Nancy Constant shows off the essays her students wrote on Martin Luther King Jr. The essays hang in the hallway of Woodland Elementary West in Gages Lake.
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An essay on Martin Luther King Jr. by second grader Archan Sriselvakumar, 7, of Grayslake at Woodland Elementary West in Gages Lake.
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Second-grade students in Nancy Constants class read books and wrote essays about how Martin Luther King changed the world. The essays hang in the hallway of Woodland Elementary West in Gages Lake.
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Archan Sriselvakumar, 7, of Grayslake holds up his project on Martin Luther King Jr. at Woodland Elementary West in Gages Lake.
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Fourth-grade student Austin Hembd of Tarkington Elementary wrote an essay about Martin Luther King Jr.
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Fourth-grade student Austin Hembd of Tarkington Elementary wrote an essay about Martin Luther King Jr.
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Fourth-grade student Austin Hembd of Tarkington Elementary wrote an essay about Martin Luther King Jr.
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Fourth-grade student Austin Hembd of Tarkington Elementary wrote an essay about Martin Luther King Jr.
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Kindergartner Amanda Albrecht reads what she wrote on the back of her portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as students at Westfield Community School in Algonquin finish up a class project.
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