Measured realistic perceptions created by the narrators of Vidas secas and Eles eram muitos cavalos: didactic sequence proposition to high school

Abstract

From the comparative reading of the novels Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos and Eles eram muitos cavalos, by Luiz Ruffato, this paper develops a proposition of didactic sequence to high school literature classes with the propose to approximate the elements of the novels that represent realist perceptions according to the narrator in different social and historical contexts. For that it begins with a discussion about literary literacy, more specifically about the approach of novel in classroom. Then it shows a propose of dialogic reading in which it evidence the realist perceptions created by the heterodiegetic narrators of Vidas secas e Eles eram muitos cavalos. Lastly directed reading strategies are proposed from the systematization of basic didactic sequences about those novels. It conclude that to work with novels by basic didactic sequence planned and elaborated with knowledge of students formation in high school is efficient methodology to teaching literature in school, mainly the public schools where reading and book acquisition process by the students were always a trouble in teaching/learning literature.