A leitura de o diário de Anne Frank em sala de aula do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola na Amazônia

Abstract

This master's thesis deals with the reading of the literary text and the production of reading notes and letters with 37 students, arranged in two classes of the 9th year of a public school located in the neighborhood of Guamá, the most populous in Belém (PA). The theoretical repertoire for discussing the role of literature in human education and its place in school included Candido (2007), Chartier (2001), Freire (2000), Manguel (1997), Maria (2016), Morin (2000, 2005), Petit (2009), Silva (1993), Todorov (2009) and Zilberman (1989). Our methodological perspective was based on the theories of Reception (Jauss, 1994; Iser, 1996) and the Sociology of Reading (Horellou-Laforge and Segré, 2010). A set of activities was developed with the aim of promoting meaningful contact with reading and writing, based on the connections between Anne Frank's biographical narrative and lives of students, teenagers between 13 and 16 years old, most with 14, in a situation of economic vulnerability and living in a violent context. Anne Frank's diary (1974) was read in its entirety, partly at school, partly at home; some read on paper (books, photocopies), but most in reading applications for ePub format. Impressions on reading and evaluating activities took place both in the classroom environment and in virtual spaces, messaging applications and social media. The immediate identification of students with the main character of the Diary, motivated by the environment in which they live, the oppression they experience and also by the typical dilemmas of adolescence; accessible language; the organization in short chapters, motivated reading and promoted the engagement of readers with the text. At the end of the process, reading seems to have been meaningful and collaborated to enrich the students' imaginative, historical, linguistic and aesthetic repertoire, in addition to humanizing classroom relationships.