A epopéia como gênero épico: uma intervenção para professores do 1º ano do ensino médio.

Abstract

Literature is considered among many conceptions, an instrument of communication and social interaction, since it conveys the knowledge and culture of a people. The epic, in turn, is an epic genre, one of the oldest manifestations of Literature, which refers to the historical feats of a people, a nation, with the presence of mythological beings. While the textbook, besides being a very important tool for the formation of the student, is an instrument of growth for the same one, since it assists and contributes much in the daily pedagogical practice of the teacher, besides being theoretical and practical support for the student in school and beyond. When reflecting on the role that the textbook has in the classroom, this work aims to analyze the partial absence of the same, in relation to its historical contextualisation of the epic genre in the book Viva Portuguese of the first year of high school, as well as describe the emergence of the epic genre in ancient Greece and Rome and to evaluate how Classicism takes up the Greco-Roman model of the epic genre. To do so, we propose a didactic intervention for Portuguese Language teachers who work in that year. We are based on the reflections of Aristóteles (2008), Calvino (1993), Jaeger (2001), among other theorists. It is a bibliographical research of a qualitative nature in which we seek from the knowledge of Schneuwly, Dolz and Noverraz (2004) the guidelines for the construction of the didactic intervention proposal. As for the results, we do not always find in the books what we want to see, but we can help from our critical eye, to contribute more and more to this knowledge to expand and be able to heal the curiosities and worries of researchers who, like us, wish the best ever.