A utilização das cartas de Sesmarias como fonte para o ensino do período colonial do Brasil

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to think about the History of teaching in basic education through primary sources. In this way, it aims to propose a didactic sequence for working on the colonial period through a letter of sesmaria, a document that permeated the practice of granting land in Brazil during the colonial period, this being a determining mechanism for colonization of the country. In addition, this work also seeks to point out ways of using this record through the bibliography of authors who work on education and the teaching of history, as well as researchers who are specialists on the study of the colonial period and the land issue. Also, thinking of this as a way of teaching the colonial period in Brazil, but seeking to address the influences of the practice of inequality in the distribution of land for the country today, questions will be considered that address the agrarian system in force in the teaching of History, also using maps and news as guides and support in the construction of learning.