Monkey Middle is a school for gifted students, each of whom is capable of casting magical spells. The magical alphabet is called Hangul and the ancient language of magic is known as Hanguka. Students practice magic, play team sports, games, and sometimes duel each other. Magic enables a student to transform into a mythical creature (such as a turtle, tiger, phoenix, or dragon), enchant a ball during a sport, or summon a mundane or magical creature for service.
Monkey Middle is part of a collocated facility of Elephant Elementary School and Tiger High School, collectively known as Red Dragon Campus. The faculty teach magic and prepare the students to save the world from mythical monsters who are destroying the planet and enslaving the humans through black magic. The aliens also know Hanguka and are using it to transform teachers, pets, and friends into monsters. Students have to battle their former allies in order to save them.
Monkey Middle includes classrooms for vocabulary, grammar, and phrases. At the sports field or in the gymnasium, students play Mahjong, ping pong, soccer, or Taekwondo. When tempers get lost students also duel. On the grounds is also a cafeteria, a library, a trophy case, a wooded grove, a boiler room in the basement, and an administrative and nursing office. Just off the grounds is a caf?, a clothing store, a sporting goods store, and each child’s home and their own room in suburbia.
Monkey Middle is within a suburb of Red Lake City. The school system is magically cloaked to appear as a section of the center of the lake. Students have been selected to attend Monkey Middle based on their aptitude to learn the language of magic, Hanguka. Outside of school, magic is kept secret from mundane humans.
The only language that can be displayed is the magical language, Hanguka (which is real-world Korean). All communication to or from the user must be in this language.
The target users for this edutainment software are Korean-American children living in the United States, ages 8 to 12. These children play for fun. Yet their parents encourage them because while they play, they are practicing basic conversation and fundamentals of academic writing in the Korean language, at the Middle School level.
RED DRAGON CAMPUS
COMMONS: Meeting of the paths to each school. The commons is open and clean. Students of all grades mingle and chat here.
ELEPHANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: The largest building for the largest segment of students, in grades 1 through 5.
ELEPHANT PLAYGROUND: A collection of fantastic jungle gyms, slides, ladders, and obstacle courses.
MONKEY MIDDLE SCHOOL: The second largest building for students in grades 6, 7 and 8.
MONKEY SPORTS FIELD: A modest sports field for soccer and other events.
MONKEY WOODS: Forbidden to students, these woods surround the sports field. It is rumored that monsters lurk in them.
TIGER HIGH SCHOOL: The most prestigious building for students in grades 9 through 12.
TIGER SPORTS FIELD: Exclusive for intramural sports. Elite Monkey Middle School games are played here.
TIGER WOODS: Forbidden woods, in which high school students swear that monsters live.
OFF CAMPUS
BRIDGE: A magical bridge extends to Red Dragon Campus. Only those who can cast the spell of sight can see it. Students use the bridge while keeping the school secret from mundanes.
TURTLE CAFE: A light snack and drink, and a place for chatting when off the school grounds.
PHOENIX CLOTHING: Fashion for boys and girls, both mundane and magical.
STUDIOUS SUPPLIES: School supplies, including magical ingredients and tools.
HOME: Each student has a home and a personal room which they can decorate with anything they have bought, traded, or earned.
MONKEY MIDDLE SCHOOL BUILDING
BASIC VOCABULARY: Classroom for the practice of basic magical words, such as colors and spatial relationships.
ADVANCED VOCABULARY: Classroom for practice of advanced magical words, which refine the basic terms.
GRAMMAR: Classroom for the practice of analysis and construction of short spells from magical words.
COMPOSITION: Classroom for the practice of long spells composed from short spells.
CONVERSATION: Classroom for the practice of magical discourse, which may be used to persuade monsters.
LIBRARY: Collection of works in the magical language, Hanguka.
TROPHY CASE: Display of school and student awards and rankings.
ARENA: Ping pong, taekwondo, and other competitions are played and watched here. Administration encourages students to hone their skills through competitive and cooperative sports.
CAFETERIA: School food and socialization. There is a view of the arena from the seats.
BOYS’ BATHROOM: Where the boys gossip semi-privately.
GIRLS’ BATHROOM: Where the girls gossip semi-privately.
NURSE: To attend to injured and/or transmuted students.
ADMINISTRATION: Overseeing operations and making changes to the student records.
MONKEY MIDDLE SCHOOL BASEMENT
Stairs by the bathrooms lead down to the basement.
LOCKS: Some doors are locked. The student must deduce the password from a magical puzzle on the face of the lock. Opening a lock enrages the administration.
DETENTION: Where naughty students are forced to practice spells.
TAXIDERMY: Stuffed specimens of monsters.
BANNED BOOKS: Books deemed too vile and powerful for students.
CLEANING SUPPLIES: Mops, brooms, wax, and enchanted self-cleaning articles.
PLUMBING: Tubes that carry the sound from all over the school. These can be used to eavesdrop on teachers and discover plots.
BOILER ROOM: Energy source for the school. The boiler emits blue flames and is fed by magical energy. Students are sometimes assigned boiler duty, where they feed the boiler new spells to keep the energy emanating. Behind boiler is door that leads to the temple area.
SEWAGE: Hidden view of the temple through a sewage grate.
TEMPLE: Site of secret magical rituals performed by the teachers and some intrepid students. Magical battles against summoned monsters sometimes occur here.
DRAIN: Hole leading to a subterranean caverns beneath Red Lake.