English Classroom

You sit in hard chairs attached by metal bars to cold, hard, brown desks, as the English teacher drones on about the subject we talked about yesterday. Tuning out everything around you, while doodling on the notebook in front of you, dozing off, dreaming about the pb+j  sandwich you have for lunch, you struggle to make it through the day. Until the person in front of you coughs, and it’s back to reality, homework. The way the English room is designed should be a place where the environment is a free thinking, and a place where kids like learning in.


To start I would get rid of this horrible linoleum flooring, and replace it with shag carpet. Not dull white, or gray carpet, but electric blue carpet. This color will give the room a more creative vibe. Because there is carpet, it will be much more comfortable to sit on the floor. Especially since it is shag carpet too.

After changing the floor, the next thing to take care of would have to be furnishings. The room would be divided so you can actually travel to different places as you write. By having one corner be a study with a sunken floor, fire place a couch, and surrounded in twenty foot high book shelves. Another area would be a beach. There you could walk barefoot across the sand to the little one- foot pond filled with water, or sit in beach chairs and lay on towels on top of the sand. On the side of the room one of the areas would look like your in the woods. A place with a campfire to roast marshmallows, and wood logs for benches around the fire.

Other areas of the room will be just for comfort and fun. With beanbags and chairs that hang form the ceiling to do this. One of the fun things in the room is the trampolines. You can flip of the trampolines into the foam pit, or climb up the rock wall and dive into the pool of purple foam cubes. On top of the roof it would be an open grassy area where you can sit outside and enjoy the fresh air. There would also be a veggie garden would also be on the roof as well. The quietest place in the room is the coffee shop. It’s one of the best places to read and write stories. The last place in the room is an important research area. Laptops and a gigantic Mac computer for presentations would be included in the room.

In addition to the carpeted floors, the walls would have furry carpet on them as well. This carpet on the wall will be yellow. Yellow is a happy color so it has a good affect on your mood. Carpeted walls make the room unique, and gives the room a different look than normal.

All of these things will help improve the way you think of writing, and gives you a place to enjoy it. A place where when someone says English you think good thoughts. Not desk and cement walls. That exciting, creative place, you love writing in. That is an environment you want to learn in.