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Identity, Expectations, and Family Dynamics: Romeo and Juliet x Freakier Friday

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

 

✨ What you’ll hear inside:

  • 60 sec recaps
  • How you can attack this play from multiple lenses
  • Our fave engagement strategies for a little razzle dazzle
  • Tips for tackling several topics/themes
  • Rapid fire recs (also posted below!)

 

 

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

  • How can misunderstandings between parents and children shape the choices each makes?
  • What role does communication (or the lack of it) play in family conflict?
  • In what ways can generational differences create tension or strengthen relationships?
  • How do family expectations influence the way young people view love, identity, and independence?
  • What happens when individuals feel their families don’t understand them?
  • To what extent should family loyalty outweigh personal desires?
  • How do family dynamics affect the risks young people are willing to take?

 

 

Rapid Fire Recs -

Movies/Shows:

  • Freaky Friday
  • KPOP Demon Hunters
  • Turning Red
  • Elemental
  • Coco
  • Encanto
  • Never Have I Ever
  • Gilmore Girls
  • All American
  • Mulan
  • Lilo and Stitch
  • Grease
  • Teen Beach Movie
  • West Side Story
  • The Barbie Movie
  • High School Musical
  • Wicked

Books/Other:

  • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
  • I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez
  • The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • "On The Sidewalk Bleeding" - short story by Evan Hunter
  • "Still I Rise" - poem by Maya Angelou

  

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