Students learn about Martin Luther King Civil rights leader honored on birthday V I - ! I S- H I 1 s I V a By CHKRIE HUBER Clipper Correspondenl On Jan. 20, we celebrate the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Mar-tin Luther King, Jr. with a federal and state holiday. Sandy Anderson's sixth grade class at Tolman Elementary School in Bountiful will be helping some of the other classes honor Martin Luther King with a readers' theater that gives information about other black leaders in the country's past, presents a quotation from his famous "I have a dream..." speech and shows his accomplishments. Mrs. Anderson's class was divided divid-ed into three readers' groups. Each group will present the reading to several classes. In the short presentation Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes acquainted ac-quainted with other blacks who have a place in history through reading his history book in his seventh sev-enth grade class. Harriet Tubman, who worked on the underground railroad; Nat Turner, who led a revolt, and Frederick Douglass, who consulted with Lincoln on the slavery problem, prob-lem, all speak to a young Martin Luther King, Jr. and each ends by saying, "I did all I could to help my people." The last narrator ends the presentation presen-tation by saying "through his deeds and words, Martin Luther King, Jr. will be remembered as one of the great voices in the history of civil rights." The class worked for a week on the script and will present the readers' theater today in costumes they have put together. Members of the class said they learned a lot from the production, "The Sound of Great Voices." The students also had a chance to write about someone they admired ad-mired and to consider whether other famous Americans should also be honored with a national holiday. Tolman Elementary students that lock part in the unit emphasizing civil rights and Martin Luther King, Jr. were: back row, Randy Ryerse, Heathe Schmidt, Allie Plaizier; front row, Melanie McLaws, Mindee Garlick and Steven Barrus.