Pop Culture Brain
This app turned short videos into a global obsession.
What is TikTok?
This show features students competing in deadly childhood games.
What is Squid Game?
This character just wants companionship but is rejected by society.
Who is the Creature from Frankenstein?
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
Who is Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Is Wakanda real or fictional?
Fiction
This type of school is Monument Academy.
What is a charter school?
This artist released the album Midnights.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This superhero leads Wakanda.
Who is Black Panther?
This novel centers on a woman falsely judged by a rigid moral society.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”
George Milton from Mice and Men
Is the Salem witch trial hysteria based on real events?
Real (but dramatized in The Scarlet Letter context)
Monument Academy Middle School emphasizes this type of curriculum focused on shared knowledge and content.
What is the Core Knowledge Sequence?
This video game features building, mining, and surviving in a blocky world.
What is Minecraft?
This movie features a multiverse and a chaotic laundromat family story.
What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?
This character fakes his own death to escape his abusive father.
Who is Huck from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
Jay Gatsby from Great Gatsby
Is artificial intelligence like ChatGPT fully human-level conscious?
No
This is the official mission focus: providing a __________, content-rich academic program.
What is challenging?
This platform is known for streamers and live gaming content.
What is Twitch?
This long-running show features dragons, politics, and power struggles.
What is Game of Thrones?
This Russian novel explores morality, guilt, and faith through multiple brothers.
What is The Brothers Karamazov?
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Who is Marcellus from Hamlet?
Was Odysseus a real historical figure?
Likely myth/legend
This set of values is emphasized at Monument Academy: academic excellence, respect, responsibility, character, and this final trait.
What is citzenship?
This AI tool is often used (sometimes too much) for schoolwork.
What is ChatGPT?
This film reimagines Homer’s journey during the Great Depression.
What is O Brother, Where Art Thou??
This hero returns home in disguise to test loyalty and reclaim power.
Who is Odysseus from The Odyssey?
What book said: “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
Dmitri Karamazov From The Brothers Karamazov
This major U.S. airport is surrounded by conspiracy theories involving underground tunnels, secret bunkers, and a mysterious blue horse statue nicknamed “Blucifer.”
What is Denver International Airport? (Real — the airport is real… the conspiracies are questionable 😈)
This idea is central to the curriculum: “Knowledge builds on __________.”
What is knowledge?