Revirando o baú na sala de aula: a tenacidade do cotidiano na obra de Cidinha da Silva

Abstract

The Afro-Brazilian literature is gaining more space in academic setting, but very little reaches the students of elementary school. Based on the Law 10639/03, which includes the obligation of study of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture, the school needs to offer students its reflexions as component and creator of Brazilian society, appreciating the role of the Afro-Brazilian folk as a creator individual of the history of our nation, because what has been taught in schools is that the history of Africa is limited to the history of slavery and enslaved people. The Afro-Brazilian literature worked on the classroom did not break up with the classic esthetics patterns and neither with the Brazilian tradition yet. Thus, I present a proposal to work with an African descendant authoress: Cidinha da Silva, a writer from Minas Gerais, who appears inside the current literary scene, working with the Afro-Brazilian Literature, a marginal literature to the canon, which deals with themes related to the Negritude concept, racial prejudice, African Brazilian culture, religion of African origin, behavior and music in a natural and flowing way, and that reaches the juvenile public with their stories, tales, chronicles where we can recognize ourselves within the plot, in characters and even in the actions of the daily life. This paper proposes a focused instructional sequence for reading and writing of the genre of chronicle, more specifically the composition Baú de miudezas, sol e chuva (2014) which has as an objective to approach the teaching and learning process of students from elementary school of public education as from a cultural appreciation and awareness of their identity and role in the world. This research presents a didactic and pedagogical focus, based on PCN’s, on the Law 10.639/03, on Candido (2010, 1998, 1995), Cosson (2009), Freire (1987) and Munanga (2009, 2000).