Round Lake Beach Middle School's ELL class celebrates the Day of the Dead

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  Students constructed these photographs with stories dedicated to loved ones that have passed on, creating a traditional shrine to remember their deceased.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  Students wrote about their family traditions for celebrating this day, comparing how others celebrate the same day.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  Students wrote about their family traditions for celebrating this day, comparing how others celebrate the same day.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  Students constructed these photographs with stories dedicated to loved ones that have passed on, creating a traditional shrine to remember their deceased, with marigolds and sculls decorated around.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  The art class made traditional sculls out of clay with paper marigolds, the sculls represent death and rebirth.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  Noa Martinez reads a brief history with his son Josian, of Round Lake.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  Traditional clay and sugar sculls with marigolds decorated the room, along with stories and illustrations created by students dedicated to their loved ones.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Round Lake Middle School Family Literacy night, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with activities and displays in Marie Bertram’s ELL Class.  The entire school was creatively decorated with to a halloween themed genre.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)