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In this course, participants explore a wide range of texts and genres for their quality, complexity, and the diverse roles they play in secondary ELA. Methods will be introduced for finding and locating texts appropriate for and appealing to urban teenagers. Participants will evaluate canonical, contemporary, and young adult books to consider the challenges and opportunities they provide. In addition to developing the vocabulary for analyzing how texts operate, participants will explore quantitative and qualitative methods for targeting their complexity. Participants will also examine how the text complexity of any single text is dependent on classroom context and the additional texts being used in conjunction with it, through the process of reading and then designing original multimodal, multi-genre text sets.