After reading Romeo and Juliet and The Poet X with my students, it was clear many of them were itching to be pushed a little harder not just in the books they were reading, but in the concepts we were exploring. When I first brought up the idea of adolescence being a social construct, I was met with a surprising amount of pushback, and I decided this was a good entry point for a unit utilizing the Youth lens. In my Romeo and Juliet unit, I attempted to make a unrelatable and inaccessible text interesting and meaningful to teenagers. In my unit with The Poet X, I used a book that I predicted would be loved by the students very quickly to focus on figurative language, which was not interesting to all of the students. For my third unit, I wanted the best of both worlds. In this unit, all students got to pick from 4 books which one they were most excited about reading, and the layered texts and assignments came from TV and movies that were interesting to them, and drew on current events specifically relating to youth and schools.