activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth and sixth years of elementary school, with questions based on the text The fisherman and the fox.
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Zumbi, grandson of Aqualtune, a princess descended from a noble African lineage, was born in Palmares, in 1655. In one of the expeditions against Palmares, he was kidnapped, taken to the nearby city of Porto de Calvo and handed over to Father Melo, who baptized him with the name Francisco.
At the age of 15, he ran away and returned to Palmares. At a very young age, he became the head of one of the villages in this Quilombo. Due to his bravery, intelligence, vigorous body and iron will, in a short time he became head of the armed forces of Palmares.
For years, Zumbi and his people resisted several expeditions that attacked Quilombo. After successive attacks, Palmares was destroyed and Zumbi was killed two years later, on November 20, 1965. Betrayed by Antônio Soares, who denounced his hiding place and stabbed him, Zumbi fought to the end. He was castrated and his head exposed in a public place in Recife.
Today, Zumbi dos Palmares is the main symbol of resistance against all forms of oppression that still punish the black people of Brazil. Zumbi, under the leadership of Palmares, represented a permanent challenge and incentive to the struggles against the perverse colonial system.
In 1995, the tercentenary of Zumbi's immortality was celebrated, an important moment for the rescue of the history of resistance of the black people, which was forgotten by official historiography. Especially this year, the figure has re-emerged strong as an inspiring example for building a nation where everyone can live with dignity. Therefore, Zumbi is not today just a symbol for the black people, but a leader of the homeland of national significance.
(Rosa Margarida de Carvalho Rocha.
Afro-Brazilian Pedagogical Almanac.
Belo Horizonte: Mazza Editions, 2006)
1) Why is the text called “Zumbi”?
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2) Why is Zumbi considered a symbol of resistance for black people?
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3) Mark below the textual genre that corresponds to the text read:
a) poem.
b) narrative.
c) autobiography.
d) biography.
4) Remove from the text:
a) An adverb of time:
b) A cardinal numeral:
c) A verb in the past tense:
d) A preposition:
5) “After successive attacks, Palmares was destroyed […]”. Rewrite the sentence replacing the underlined word with a synonym.
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Read the following strip, about Tayó, and answer questions 6 and 7:
(Available at: www.cearacriolo.com.br. Accessed on 11/10/2021.)
6) In the story, what does the phrase “[…] before me, others like me have come!…”?
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7) In the first box there are three verbs, what are they? What conjugations do these verbs belong to?
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