The development of Critical Literacy in High School

A proposal to Portuguese Language classes

Abstract

This article is an experience report about the development of the research project “Literature and other arts: discursive formations and the construction of meaning in contemporary times”, carried out within the scope of the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), Campus Bento Gonçalves. The activities were performed through periodic virtual meetings with students from High School Integrated to Technical Course. In this sense, the objectives of this article are to report our experience during the project period and discuss the work with theory and literary text in high school, analyzing the possible mediations in the teaching-learning process. The methodology consisted of reading and discussing both theoretical texts in the area of Linguistics (Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis) and Literature (Critical Literacy and Literary Literacy), as well as fictional texts, especially short stories. In summary, it was possible to realize that even in high school it is possible to work with theoretical concepts and to formulate fruitful intertextual relationships between fictional works. It was also observed that the contact with such texts, together with the discussions conducted throughout the project, increased the cultural repertoire of the students and their criticality in relation to the different speeches.