🎙️ Episode 5 - A Hero's Journey Remixed: The Odyssey x Stranger Things

✨ What you’ll hear inside:

We are all living the hero's journey in some way, but what IS the hero’s journey? Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, is credited with popularizing the concept of the hero's journey, or monomyth, in his 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. There are SEVERAL different adaptations of what the hero’s journey means, the one that I have used for my classes involves 12 stages in which the hero crosses from the ordinary world to the extraordinary world, but they all have the same goal which is to demonstrate the complexities of the hero as they navigate their life/destiny.

In today’s episode, we’re talking “The Hero’s Journey” as it relates to The Odyssey, connecting back to Stranger Things on Netflix. You ready for this adventure?!

 Essential Questions: Journal Prompts/Small Group Discussions

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🎙️ Episode 4 - Identity, Expectations, and Family Dynamics: Romeo and Juliet x Freakier Friday

✨ What you’ll hear inside:

 Essential Questions: Journal Prompts/Small Group Discussions/Compare and Contrast

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🎙️ Episode 3 - We’re All A Little Outcast-y Here: Poe x Wednesday x Stranger Things

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Poe Works:

Spooky/eerie/dark books, movies, shows:

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Movies:

Shows:

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🎙️ Episode 2 - Your English Teacher's Favorite English Teacher: Taylor Swift x The ELA Classroom

 We’re Hannah Hazelbach and Ana Perez: best friends, revolutionary ELA teachers, and your new classroom besties.

ELA is alive and everywhereee, and when we can connect the texts we're reading in class to trending culture, messy human behavior, and what's popping off in everyone's FYP pages, students become ALL IN.

In this episode, we dive into all things Taylor Swift, including her fame, her iconic music, her recent engagement, and how you can bring Swiftie things into your ELA classroom, even if your students are not Swifties.

✨ What you’ll hear inside:

Taylor's Eras in Themes:

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🎙️ Episode 1 - Survival of the Fittest: Lord of the Flies x Trainwreck Poop Cruise

Welcome to the very first episode of The Fresh Queens of ELA IRL! 👑📚

We’re Hannah Hazelbach and Ana Perez: best friends, revolutionary ELA teachers, and your new classroom besties.

ELA is alive and everywhereee, and when we can connect the texts we're reading in class to trending culture, messy human behavior, and what's popping off in everyone's FYP pages, students become ALL IN.

In this episode, we dive into Lord of the Flies and pair it with Netflix’s documentary, Trainwreck: The Poop Cruise. Together, we unpack what “survival of the fittest” really looks like when humanity starts to crumble during chaotic times.

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