Courtney,
I have attached some screen shots to help show what is going on. In Image01 this is the default calendar in the month view. You can see that the word “Events” is missing. When I switch views to any other view the word “Events” shows as seen in screenshots image02 and image03. Because of this I created a temp page to test using the shortcode instead. Image04 shows the page setup, Image05 shows that it looks as expected. However when I change views on the temp page then I am taken back to my front page instead of the correct view. You can see that in Image06. I tried putting a red circle or dash next to the areas I am speaking of.
Ultimately most of the default works if I could get it to say “Events” on default month view. Or the alternate would be to use my temp page to get the title but have it go to the correct page when changing views.