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Group 1 6W =Saving the Rainforest = =**Flora G.J., Isabel T., Zakiyah A., Elena P.** = = =  =Introduction: = Our group's topic is Saving the Rainforest. Saving the rainforest is extremely important. Every hour, 6000 acres of the rainforest is cleared for farming industries. The rainforest is very important to the world, as it contributes to the oxygen in the air. Also, if the rainforest is being destroyed, so are a lot of animals and plants in it, including Africa Forest Elephants, Bengal Tigers, Orangutans, and many more. The rainforest is also being cleared to grow rubber, coffee and rainforest lumber. Saving the rainforest is crucial to the animals and to us, and we have to do something about it soon! One way we can do that is raising awarness to people. By sharing this movie, we will be raising awarness about the rainforest problem. Another thing we can do is be careful about how much we consume of products which come from the rainforest (such as rubber, coffee and rainforest lumber). This topic shows that //knowledge is power// because, if more people become aware, or, //knowledgeabe// about the rainforest, than we can all work together to stop the cutting down of the rainforest!

=Short Description of Scenes: = **Scene 1:** Introduction: Zakiyah, Flora, Elena and Isabel: Introduce topic, and importance of project. Add an interesting fact.
 * Scene 2:** Zakiyah, Flora, Elena and Isabel: Talk about the effect of de-forestation on the habitat of the rainforest.
 * Scene 3:** Zakiyah, Flora, Elena and Isabel: Talk about the effect of de-forestation on the animals.
 * Scene 4:** Conclusion: Zakiyah, Flora, Elena and Isabel: Conclude the presentation; go over everything, explain why this shows that knowledge is power

 =Characters = Zakiyah Isabel  Flora  Elena

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Scene 1:
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Scene 1 will take place in the Quad. The four members of our group will be sitting on one of the benches, talking. We will give a brief overview of what topics we will cover in our movie, and why it is important.

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===<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Isabel: The rain forest provides oxygen to the thousands of animals living in it, and gives them a natural habitat to live in. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="wiki_link_new"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">Zakiyah: So if thousands of acres of rain forests are cut down almost every day, many of the rare animals who inhabit them will die. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="wiki_link_new"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Flora: Our reason for cutting down rain forests is to farm coffee and rubber. Trees are also cut down to make paper products. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="wiki_link_new"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> Isabel: One way we can stop this is by creating an awareness of the problem
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="wiki_link_new"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0);"> Elena: Our goal with this video is to make you aware of about the destruction of the rain forest, and what you can do to help. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Scene 2:**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Scene 2 will take place in the Playground, facing the trees. We will discuss the effects of deforestation on the plants, and the environment as a whole.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Flora: As you just found out, thousands of acres of rain forest are clear-cut every day. This is a major problem.
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Isabel: Forests are clear cut in order to make room for rubber and coffee farms, By claer crops that can be harvested from the forests themselves. ===

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Elena: By clear-cutting a forest, you are causing many problems.
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">Zakiyah: You are depriving the soil of nutrients that it gets from the naturally growing trees, which causes the soil to become barren and unable to support life. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Flora: That means that even after the farm is gone, plants will not be able to grow there for a long time. === ===<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">sabel: This also makes farmers use chemical-based fertilizers, which further destroy the chemical balance in the soil. ===

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zakiyah: That means that the soil gets washed away.
===<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flora: What happens is that the roots of the trees "hold on" to the soil, and stop it from dissolving in the rainwater and the running off into a river or lake. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Isabel: Erosion makes it difficult for plants to grow, and can permanently destroy a forest.
===<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zakiyah: The lack of new growing trees causes the soil to erode even more, and it continues in a vicious cycle that has to be stopped. === ===<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flora: Also, by cutting down trees, we are destroying a major solution to the Greenhouse Gas problem. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, and emit oxygen, which leads to a healthier planet. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0);"> Elena: You know, the world is a changing.
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> Zz: Yeah, I was just chilling in my nest in the top of the extremely tall tree, when i heard a sudden rumbling and //<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">fell out of the tree while trying to eat a banana! // ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> Isabel: Whats poppin '
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0);"> Elena: We're talking about how the humans are cutting down our trees <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Scene 4: Conclusion
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Scene 4 will take place in the oval. We will be sitting on one of the benches. In this scene, we will be "wrapping up" our video, and explaining what we all can do to help solve this problem

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flora: Brands like Seventh Generation make recycled versions of most paper products.
===<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Isabel: You can try not to buy coffee from such places as Peru and Ecuador, where forests are being cut down to plant coffee crops. === ===<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Elena: Instead, you can drink tea, or coffee from places like India, and Indonesia, where there are no rain forests to destroy. ===