2nd Stage: June 12th, 2024

 After putting together the material with professor Rejane (my advisor), I was now prepared to take English literature to the students. In this class, with the company of my advisor, I took them Elliot's text, the waste land, starting with a vision of the scenario and then moving on to the character. First I asked what they knew about the First World War and they proved to know a lot about it. Then I began to explain the impacts that the war brought with a lot of interaction and participation from the students. I spoke a little about the author, the work and finally we heard a narration of the initial part of "the burial of the dead", in Portuguese translated by Ivan Junqueira.

T.S. Eliot - O enterro dos mortos (trecho de "A Terra Desolada"; tradução de Ivan Junqueira).

Subsequently I presented this excerpt, the students told me they felt the anguish, melancholy and hopelessness of the text. Apparently they managed to establish a link with the text, especially one specific student who brought me several aspects of the text even without me mentioning them. Another student managed to relate Elliot's way of writing to Carlos Drumond's, this was extremely rich as they were able to understand the external influences on Brazilian literature. We also discussed how the text relates to our current context and they mentioned everything as I had imagined and more. It was a really incredible class that made me hope for a teaching career.

In this following video you can see the slide of this class: