I Wish, I Wish, I Wish...

October18, 2009

The English Classroom Could Be

Under the concentration of the lights, the bell rings, a signal the next 70 minutes is dedicated to reading, writing, and analyzing sentences in an uncomfortable school chair, connected to a hard plastic desk, as I stare blankly ahead, my teacher walks up to the plain, colorless board, grabs an ugly black marker from the package of all hideous black markers, and starts to write on the perfect lines of the board in perfect letters with no spelling errors, and in his monotone teaching voice tells me “Copy.” Along with the boring teaching method, the boring cubed tiles, and walls are copied too. To succeed in school “boring” has to get changed into exciting, so the inside of the class room, at the least could at least be remodeled.

The new room would have an awesome floor, walls, and doorway. I now walk in through a red and white swivel door, which will help get me excited for class to start; I walk over the floor which is an aquarium with lots of exotic fish, sea turtles and coral. In two sections of the floor it opens up to a freezer with every type of ice cream, pizza, tacos and candy, to keep us well fed and not be distracted by hunger. Three of the walls are completely covered in every type of flower, and the other wall is only windows. The feel of the new room would lighten and would already help me write better, since it would be way better than a wooden door, and cubed walls and floor.

On top of the floor there would be a lot of comfy chairs, and things to sit on to read and write on. They have to be cushioned so that I won’t get back problems from the hard desks and then have to go get surgery. All along the windows there would be really comfortable and cushiony light green window seats, with lots of books and dictionaries under it. If I walk over to my right there would be small, pretty waterfall, with a pond around it filled with trained frogs, so they wouldn’t hop away, and the fish that go into the aquarium in the floor, with sitting rocks around it for writing inspiration. If I walk to my right again the next wall is the brain food wall. It has a refrigerator with tons of food and two bar counters, with purple swivel chairs, to sit at and do work at, and in the counter there are lots of drinks, snacks, books, dictionaries, pencils, and cool pens. Then in the corner of that wall and the wall I walked in from there is a sunken in orange trampoline with different colored pillows for me to lie on to read and write. In the middle of the floor there is a raised circular light blue cushion made out of the Temper-Pedic material, with a dark blue step to get up too it. In the middle of the circle there is a wooden table top thing to write on, that turns into entertainment and a projector. Under the circle there are lots of books and dictionaries so then they are close if we need them. I have to be comfortable to write and this set up for a language arts room would allow me to do that.

This room could function as a decent English classroom and not just a decent lunchroom, or nap room. The teacher could write on the windows or the floor with window markers to teach. When a project needed to be shown, it could be projected from the table in the circle, because the table flips over to the other side and turns into a projector, TV screen, touch screen computer, and a writing board. My project would be shown on the ceiling and my class can watch it from lying on the furniture. There are lots of books and dictionaries at convenient use throughout the room, like under the window seats, in the shelves by the windows, under the middle circle, in the bar counter, and the door has some books in it but is still easy to push open. I would actually enjoy coming to this room if it was set up like this, and it would function too, so it wouldn’t be unrealistic to have.

Would you rather walk into a life-less room, or a spirited room filled with lots of color, energy, and excitement for English class to start? I know I would rather walk into the spirited room because it would just be a better atmosphere too. It could be this way, as the bell rings I walk into the room through a boring wooden door, as I walk to my seat I walk on a plain tiled floor, surrounded by walls that are cubed and white, in front of a clean perfect white board at the front of the room, and to my hard plastic desk or it could be, I walk into the room through an awesome spinning red and white door, on an aquarium filled with fish, sea turtles and coral, in front of a window wall filled with writing from the class before, and sit down at a bar counter to start class. This would be a better setup. The best writers are said to have come from an “exciting” English classroom, so if the school wants me to succeed in writing, a place like this should be looked into getting remodeled. The room wouldn’t even have to be bigger, and there would be educational ways to pay for it. A lot of people could be interested in your success and this could be one of the ways to achieve it.