A literatura na sala de aula: leitura do romance As aventuras de Ngunga, de Pepetela, para 8º ano do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

The dissertation of Professional Masters entitled Literature in the classroom As aventuras de Ngunga, by Pepetela, for 8th year of elementary school, it´s configured in a proposal intervention of the literary text teaching reading to 8th year of elementary school, in a municipal school in the county of Ananindeua-Pará. In this dissertation, we aim to investigate the obstacles that make impossible for the literary text to become a mediator object of knowledge in the school. Wich strategies may be most effective for more productive and meaningful reading at school. We also aim to verify how the reading approaches presented in the textbook Teláris Project: Portuguese, 8th grade, used by students investigated may interfere in your reading comprehension, we also propose a dialogue with the Angolan literature by means of the reading of the romance As aventuras de Ngunga, of the Pepetela, For the theoretical basis of this study, we use as references: Rita Chaves (1984), Maria Aparecida Santilli (1985), Manuel Ferreira (1987), Regina Zilberman (1991), Marisa Lajolo (1993), Lajolo and Zilberman (1996), Ezequiel Theodoro da Silva (1996), Nilma Lino Gomes, (1999), Roberto Acízelo de Sousa (1999), Iris Amâncio (2008), Roger Chartier (2009), Carlos Augusto Melo (2009), Antoine Compagnon (2010), Maria Amélia Dalvi et al (2013), Miguel Arroyo (2013) and Rildo Cosson (2014). As a methodological strategy, we used the data from the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb) of the researched school which demonstrated the students' low student performance. Then we propose to the students the accomplishment of a reading activity, constant in Teláris Project: Portuguese, 8th grade this activity consists of a questionnaire on the fragments of the romance As aventuras de Ngunga, of the Pepetela, The result of this analysis served to demonstrate that the reading of the romance, presented in the textbook referred, does not promote the literary learning of the class. Next, we present a proposal for the full reading of the romance As aventuras de Ngunga, after this reading, we carried out an evaluation of the reading comprehension of the students, demonstrated through an oral activity. In the six sections in which this dissertation was divided, we deal with the factors that contributed to the construction of the literature teaching model that has predominated in the Brazilian school. We discuss conceptions of reading and how these conceptions intertwine with the teaching of literary reading, we reflect on how literary reading can be an effective instrument for law enforcement10.639/2003. We also present a discussion about the construction of teacher identity in the historical context of Brazilian education, on the importance of literary reading as an object of human formation, analysis of the textbook, Teláris: Portuguese, 8th grade, and, finally, we present the intervention project.