Iluv3rd had some great ideas...here are four more!
As a final project, have your students dress as the person they are reading about and then have a classroom wax museum. Students from other classrooms will come to your museum and bring pennies/nickles that will be placed in the bowl/can in front of each of your wax figures (students). When money is deposited, your students will tell about the person they studied and dressed as. The money can be donated to a local food pantry or the humane society.
Have each student write questions on five to eight cards about the person he/she is studying. When it is time to talk about the person each child studied, that child will give the cards to other students in the class. These class members will ask the questions, and the child who wrote the cards will answer the questions. This activity keeps everyone on task!
You could also have your students share the biography they read (see attachment). The attachment is the form I send home so parents can help their children practice.
You might also want to take a look at the ideas in ProTeacher's collections. Here is the link. http://www.proteacher.org/c/281_Biog...ographies.html