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Welcome 4th Graders to Biography Showcase
February 17, 2009, 1:19 pm
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Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United StatesChrista McAuliffe, New Hampshire teacher/astronautBarack Obama

Abraham Lincoln Christa McAuliffe Barack Obama

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  • Who are you learning about?
  • What have you learned that surprised you?
  • How is your research going?

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My biography person is Mia Hamm.

   Jessica N 03.13.09 @ 9:19 am

I’m doing Henry Ford as a biograpy subject.Does anybody know what day Henry died?

   Liam4C 03.13.09 @ 4:18 pm

Hi Liam -
According to Biography.com Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947 at his home in Dearborn, Michigan Mrs. S.

   dcslib 03.15.09 @ 6:24 am

I am doing Ronald Reagan. Did you know that he was the 1st actor or divorced president?

   Conor 4S 03.17.09 @ 12:46 pm

Hi Conor – Did you mean that he is the first actor to serve as president and also the first divorced president?

   dcslib 03.18.09 @ 4:38 am

My Ronald Reagan research is going GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have many sources on him for information.

   Conor 4S 03.18.09 @ 7:51 am

I am doing Sacajawea.

   linda 4s 03.20.09 @ 5:19 am

Im doing Jane Goodall as my biography. She is so cool she works with chimpanzees.

   Yelena4s 03.20.09 @ 5:35 am

i am doing Annie Oakley for biographies

   sebastian4s 03.20.09 @ 5:35 am

I am doing Dale Earnhardt Jr. Does any one know what his real name is?

   Philip4S 03.20.09 @ 5:36 am

I am doing Betsy Ross for my biography

   Molly4s 03.20.09 @ 5:36 am

I am doing Rosa Parks as a biography. I have a question for you. Do you know what Rosa Parks died of? Was it an illness or was if just of old age? If you know type back.

Hi Basia – According to Biography.com Rosa Parks died at home when she was 92 years old. She had dementia.

   Basia4s 03.20.09 @ 5:37 am

Does anyone know where and when Ronald Reagan was born and where and when he died?

   Conor 4S 03.20.09 @ 5:37 am

Hi I am doing Katherine Dunham.

   Katelyn 4s 03.20.09 @ 5:38 am

I am Pocahontas i wanted to know if Pocahontas had
a last name.

   Jenny4s 03.20.09 @ 5:38 am

Im doing Mother Teresa for my bio she is so cool she gave money to poor in India

   Lily4s 03.20.09 @ 5:39 am

I am Setting Bull.

   Jonathan4s 03.20.09 @ 5:39 am

I am Milton Hershey.

   William4s 03.20.09 @ 5:39 am

Im helen keller

   haylee4s 03.20.09 @ 5:39 am

Im doing Eleanor Roosevelt for my biography does any body know when she died

Hi Brianna – Eleanor Roosevelt died on November 7, 1962 according to Biography.com
Mrs. S.

   Brianna4s 03.20.09 @ 5:40 am

I am doing Princess Diana. kateline

   kateline4s 03.20.09 @ 5:40 am

I am doing Henry Ford.

   tyler4s 03.20.09 @ 5:41 am

I am doing Theodore Roosevelt- He was born on October 27, 1858- do you know how old he was when he died.

Timmy – He died in January, 1919. How old would he have been? Mrs. S.

   Timmy4s 03.20.09 @ 5:41 am

I am Tom Brady. Did you know that Tom is the youngest quarterback to win 3 Super Bowls?

   Ryan4s 03.20.09 @ 5:42 am

I like the book the Beatles.

   Linda 4s 03.20.09 @ 5:43 am

I am doing John F. Kennedy as my biography subject.

   Brian4c 03.20.09 @ 6:53 am

did you now that eleanor roosevelt marrid her fith cousin

   eliza 03.20.09 @ 6:57 am

I am doing Benjamin Franklin.

   Eva4c 03.20.09 @ 6:57 am

I am doing walt disney

   Rebecca 03.20.09 @ 6:58 am

I am doing Harriet Tubman does anybody know what day she was born.

   rebekah4c 03.20.09 @ 6:59 am

My biography person is Florence Nightingale did you know when she was a nurse in the crimean war the hospital she worked at had a pet tortise?

   Rose 4c 03.20.09 @ 7:00 am

My Biography person is Rosa Parks i think she is awsome and i think she is brave and smart. asya rouse 4c

   asya4c 03.20.09 @ 7:01 am

I am doing Helen Keller does anybody know if her sister was blind and deaf too.

   Sammy4c 03.20.09 @ 7:01 am

I am doing Clara Barton. Does anyone know how to
memorze speaches fast?

   Nat4c 03.20.09 @ 7:02 am

My biography person is Abraham Lincoln did you know that Abraham Lincoln’s kid Edward Baker died when he was four years old.Did you know how he died?

Hi Tim – It looks like no one is sure what he died of. It may have been pulmonary tuberculosis according to the website: lincolnstudies.blogspot.com/2008/03/edward-baker-lincoln.html

   Tim4c 03.20.09 @ 7:02 am

hi my person i’m doing is Shirley Temple did you know she was in more then 44 movies.

   Maggie 4c 03.20.09 @ 7:04 am

I am doing Dr. Seuss for my biography. Do you know When he wrote his first book?

   owen 03.20.09 @ 7:04 am

I am doing Sir Edmund Hillary for my biography i can not figure out how long it took him to climb Mt. Everest.

   brad4c 03.20.09 @ 7:05 am

My biography subject is Orville Wright.

   Bradley 03.20.09 @ 7:05 am

does anyone know when steve irwin was born?

   nicholas 03.20.09 @ 7:06 am

Did you know Jackie Robinson died when he was 50 years old.

   Brennan 03.20.09 @ 7:06 am

my biography person is Juliette Low does aone know whare she was born?

   alyssa 03.20.09 @ 7:13 am

I am doing Anne Frank. She died at age 15 of typhus.Don’t ask me what that is.

   Kaidyn 4a? 03.20.09 @ 9:17 am

Im doing Jim Henson.He is a person.

   sean 4a 03.20.09 @ 9:21 am

hi its laura,I’m doing Danica Patrick (a race car driver).I can’t find out when Brooke Patrick (her little sister) was born.

   laura4A 03.20.09 @ 9:23 am

I am doing Helen Keller. She is very intresting . She is blind and deaf and she went to Radcliff College.She also loved animals. She was born June 27,1880. She lived a full life!!!!!!!!!!!

   rebecca 4A 03.20.09 @ 9:23 am

My biography person is Milton Hershey and uh he made the best chocalate EVER!!!!!!!!!

   tucker4A 03.20.09 @ 9:23 am

Im doing Cleopatra I wanted to do her because she was queen of Egypt. Cleopatra was born 69BC and died at the age of 39.

   Nicole 03.20.09 @ 9:26 am

I`m doing Annie Oakley.

   Skylar 4a 03.20.09 @ 9:26 am

My biography is on Tom Brady

   ryan o 4A 03.20.09 @ 9:26 am

I am doing Walt Disney. He is a really intresting guy. I have almost done 2 out of 3 projects.

   Emery 4A 03.20.09 @ 9:27 am

My biography person is Shaun White. He is a AWESOME snowboarder :]

   Cooper4A 03.20.09 @ 9:29 am

My biography Tom Brady got married

   ryan o 4A 03.20.09 @ 9:29 am

I am doing Thomas Paine he told the averege person about the American revolution in the famous pamphlet ”Common Sense.”

   Hunter4a 03.20.09 @ 9:31 am

steve irwin did you know that he got 4 of his fingers bit off by a crocodiyle

   eric4a 03.20.09 @ 9:31 am

Drew Bledsoe was a famous football player before Tom Brady.

   alan4A 03.20.09 @ 9:32 am

Martha Graham was born May 11,1894 in Pittsburg PA. Did you know she was friends with Hellen Keller?

   camille4A 03.20.09 @ 9:33 am

im doing daniel boone was a famus hunter

   ryanh4A 03.20.09 @ 9:36 am

hello,
i am reading a book called The Yonng Man And The sea. I am almost done with it,has anyone ever read this book?

   basia4s 03.20.09 @ 5:24 pm

I am doing Dale Earnhardt Jr.

   Philip4S 03.21.09 @ 5:52 am

Im doing Eleanor roosevelt did you Know that Eleanors first name is Anna just like her mother Anna Hall

   Brianna4s 03.21.09 @ 7:46 am

I cannot wait to see listen and learn about all this wonderful people!

   mrs Girard 03.26.09 @ 5:30 am

Basia -
Rosa Parks died at the age of 92 “quietly in her apartment” according to Biography.com. She had dementia.

   dcslib 03.26.09 @ 6:02 am

I am Ronald Reagan. My research couldn’t have been going better. I am surprised he was the 1st divorced or actor president. You would think that there are more divorced if there is 44 of them.

   Conor 4S 03.26.09 @ 12:29 pm



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