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Offline BEG

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My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« on: October 02, 2009, 06:08:56 PM »
I would like suggestions on who she should do it on.

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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2009, 06:12:07 PM »
Ronald Reagan..............
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2009, 06:12:07 PM »
My first suggestion is James Cook... an amazing life led by a meticulous record-keeper.  My second choice would be George Patton, but that's the 12-year-old boy in me that likes to blow stuff up.  Walter Chrylser led an interesting life.  The progression of his career from washing trains to founding the Chrysler corporation is an interesting read.

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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2009, 06:17:07 PM »
Sarah Palin?
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2009, 06:18:40 PM »
Florence Nightingale.....chances are no one else will, so the teacher won't be able to compare it with anyone elses.

Besides, she was pretty neat....
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2009, 06:23:01 PM »
Gene Autry.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2009, 06:25:18 PM »
I was going to say Mother Theresa, but then I remembered you were in CA..... :thatsright:
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2009, 06:30:46 PM »
Quote from: debk on October 02, 2009, 06:25:18 PM
I was going to say Mother Theresa, but then I remembered you were in CA..... :thatsright:

I would love for her to do it on Ronald Reagan but we are in CA and I don't want her teacher to grade her on a sliding scale because of the teachers politics (I have no idea what the teachers politics are by the way). 
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2009, 06:33:36 PM »
Quote from: debk on October 02, 2009, 06:18:40 PM
Florence Nightingale.....chances are no one else will, so the teacher won't be able to compare it with anyone elses.

Besides, she was pretty neat....

That is a great idea.  I'm printing off information about her now for my daughter to read to see if she wants to use her.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2009, 06:37:15 PM »
Quote from: BEG on October 02, 2009, 06:33:36 PM
That is a great idea.  I'm printing off information about her now for my daughter to read to see if she wants to use her.

There are a couple of good biographies that are easily written for 5th grade level, no politics, lived long enough to do a decent report on, but not such an entailed life that it's impossible to hit everything(like Ronald Reagan's)
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2009, 06:38:40 PM »
Quote from: debk on October 02, 2009, 06:37:15 PM
There are a couple of good biographies that are easily written for 5th grade level, no politics, lived long enough to do a decent report on, but not such an entailed life that it's impossible to hit everything(like Ronald Reagan's)

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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2009, 07:13:35 PM »
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2009, 07:25:49 PM »
Obama? Oh wait, he hasn't accomplished anything , yet.  :evillaugh:
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2009, 07:32:33 PM »
Any interesting relatives or ancestors?  My son did one on the oldest cowboy in America (relative).  Grandson did an ancestor who fought in the American Revoltion.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2009, 08:41:48 PM »
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), the most remarkable woman of the twentieth century.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2009, 09:36:09 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 02, 2009, 07:25:49 PM
Obama? Oh wait, he hasn't accomplished anything , yet.  :evillaugh:

I'm afraid he's accomplished a great deal. His narcissism, his ego, and his gross mismanagement of the Oval Orifice has regalvanized much of America - not just the conservative element who distrusted Lord Zero from the moment he gave his speech in the 2004 Dem Convention, but those who are less passionate about social and fiscal conservatism. Those people are beginning to see just how badly they were duped and hornswoggled (howzAT for a word, eh?).

Unfortunately, the Republican party has lost whatever conservative base it might've had, so things still aren't peachy-keen. But as more time goes on, only those true idiots who worship at Lord Zero's feet are going to gaze upon his countenance with awe and reverence.

Everyone else is just plain disgusted.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2009, 09:53:22 PM »
Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, Louisa May Alcott, or Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2009, 10:08:02 PM »
Hitler...  As an example of what NOT to follow.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2009, 04:30:00 AM »
Wyatt Earp.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2009, 04:55:22 AM »
King Christianson of Denmark. Mickey Rooney, Louis LaMore, Lobster Boy.

Fanny Brice, Al Capone, Roxie Heart, Henry VIII, George Wallice, ED Sullivan.

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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2009, 07:09:41 AM »
Patton
Churchill
Condi Rice
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2009, 02:53:16 PM »
As a non-Catholic student of the church, my suggestion would be Pope John Paul I, only 33 days as pontiff, but a very interesting fellow, and very controversial to the church........

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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #22 on: October 03, 2009, 02:55:09 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on October 03, 2009, 02:53:16 PM
As a non-Catholic student of the church, my suggestion would be Pope John Paul I, only 33 days as pontiff, but a very interesting fellow, and very controversial to the church........

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Interesting answer.
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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #23 on: October 03, 2009, 03:11:01 PM »
Quote from: Chris on October 03, 2009, 02:55:09 PM
Interesting answer.

He was quite an interesting cleric, and also fastinating in his personal life.........

It was related later (after his as-yet unexplained death) by one of the Cardinals in his conclave following the final ballot.....that he stepped to the microphone and stated simply......."May God forgive you for what you have done to me today......"

Also of interst is that the Carabinari still, to this day, have an open investigation on the events surrounding his demise.....

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Re: My fifth grader has to do a biography.....
« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2009, 10:11:20 PM »
Augusto Pinochet: the Hero of Latin America

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