As pointed out in the Common Core, more non-fiction text is recommended over fiction. One way of balancing both genres would be to pair a literary work with a piece of non-fiction. There are many novels that lend themselves to this arrangement. I have done it with Hansberry's " A Raisin in the Sun" and Martin Luther King's " I Have a Dream" speech. I think our students get a deeper perspective for the literary work since the novel is put in the context of history, and it gives the student an insight as to why the author might have written his or her work.
The following links are a suggested list of pairings for novel and non-fiction text.
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