Cordéis at school: literature as a way of honoring

Abstract

This article aims to tell about an experience of a didactic sequence applied to classes from Middle School during the Portuguese Language classroom at a Minas Gerais municipal school. The pedagogical practices were ruled by PIBID scholarship holders under the supervision of the class professor. Departed from the book Heroínas negras brasileiras em 15 cordéis (2017), by Jarid Arraes. And based on the perspective of literary literacy (Cosson, 2009), it was sought to know and to value the genre cordel literature and to produce cordéis keeping in mind the act of honoring local personalities, nationals and/or internationals chosen by the students themselves. The final product from the classes showed an effective way to use the literary text for building feelings and personal identities.