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The main problem in the article is that the people are not recycling enough.So,the fourth,fifth, and sixth graders from Hawthorne Elementary created an organization to help people recycle. They call themselves KOPE(Kids Organized to Protect the Environment).

http://library.thinkquest.org/17602/

1:TOPIC:The goverment wants to help people. MAIN IDEA:That the goverment has 3 branches. The executive,legislative and judicial. They work together to form a more peaceful place.

2: TOPIC: How the Congress works. MAIN IDEA: The Congress's job is to make laws. In the Congress, there are 100 senators. Also, there are 435 representatives in the Congress. The Congress makes up the legislative branch. The Congress includes the House of Representatives.

3: TOPIC: When the executive branch gets voted. MAIN IDEA: The executive branch gets voted every 4 years.

4:TOPIC:The judicial branch interpret laws. MAIN IDEA:The judicial branch's job is to make the laws that the congress makes, make sense. They have to make sure that the laws do not go against the constitution. The judicial branch is also the supreme court.

5:TOPIC:What changes the goverment makes. MAIN IDEA:The goverment makes very few changes in lots of years.

6:TOPIC:What the constitution does and how it affects the USA. MAIN IDEA:The supreme law makes the constitution. The introduction is called the preamble. A change for the constitution is called the amendment. It affects the USA because it allows freedom.

PROBLEM Our problem is about littering and how it effects us and the world.I think we should do this problem because it is possible for us to do and it is a big problem on earth. This problem effects the world by killing plants we eat and, destroying animals, suffocating or choking fish and pollutes the air we breathe. Tori and Kathy are doing a poster and Adam and Nathan are doing a powerpoint.

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