READING OF LITERARY STORIES IN THE CLASSROOM: REGIONALISM AND HUMOR IN THE TALES OF MANOEL ONOFRE JÚNIOR
Teaching. Literature. Literacy. Onofre Júnior
The teaching of literature has been neglected during the last decades in Basic Education, mainly in public schools. For this reason, and aware of the importance of the knowledge disseminated in literary texts in the construction of student learning as citizens, we chose to teach literature. Thus, the present work presents a proposal for intervention in the classroom, applied in the 8th grade of the Municipal School Manoel João Barbosa, located in the rural area of the municipality of Logradouro in the state of Paraíba. Our main objective is to develop the learner competence of literary texts of the student with the focus on their critical-social and cultural transformation. For this, we take the literary literacy to the classroom through the application of reading tales that are part of book, Chão dos Simples (2014) of Manoel Onofre Jr., having as its theme unit the humor and residues of the regionalist tradition. In order for us to achieve this goal, we have set out the following specific objectives: a) Inserting the reading of literary texts in a significant way in the eighth grade class of Elementary School, as a means of providing to the students the knowledge indispensable for their human development;
b) to motivate in the student the interest in the reading of literary texts, with the purpose of stimulating in this student the desire to read; c) to provide to the students the necessary conditions for the production of regional tales, based on their experiences with short stories, in order to analyze the degree of evolution of each student in relation to their reading and writing training; d) produce an Anthology with the stories written by the students and disseminate it in an event for the school community. As this is a classroom reading experience, this study adopts the basic didactic sequence model, according to the systematization of Rildo Cosson (2014) in his book: Literary Literature: theory and practice, which is structured around four stages: motivation, introduction, reading and interpretation. This paper has as theoretical contribution Rildo Cosson (2014), Antonio Candido (1995), in his essay "The right to literature"; The critical systematization of Antoine Compagnon (2009), present in his work Literature for what?; The essay by Leyla Perrone-Moisés (1996), "Literature for All”. These authors bring reflections to think about the relevance and role of literature in the lives of individuals, either as an instrument of social criticism, in the formation of citizens, or in their intellectual and cultural formation.