activity of text interpretation, aimed at fifth-year students, about Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós. Let's know the story of this great writer? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Born in 1941, in the interior of Minas Gerais. In the 1960s, he moved to Belo Horizonte. With a background in the areas of education and art, he went to France, with a UN scholarship, to study philosophy at the Pedagogical Institute in Paris. It was in the French capital that he started writing.
In the early 1970s, he made his literary debut with The fish and the bird, the first book of an extensive work that established him among one of the main authors of children's and youth fiction in Brazil. He was the founder of the Movement for a Literary Brazil, in which he actively participated.
He received important decorations, such as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), White Rose Medal (Cuba), Great Medal of Inconfidência Mineira and Santos Dumont Medal. He also won the Critics' Grand Prize in Children's / Youth Literature by APCA, the Jabuti, the Brazilian Academy of Letters Award, among many others.
In 2000, he entered the IBBY Honor Roll. In 2008, he received the Ibero-American Prize for Children's Literature, from the SM Foundation, in Mexico, for his body of work. A lover of words, he said he had the breath of a cat, which allowed him to be born and die several times. “I am fragile enough for a word to hurt me, as I am strong enough for a word to resurrect me.” Bartholomew passed away in 2012.
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Question 1 – The text above is:
( ) A tale.
( ) a biography.
( ) a report.
Question 2 – According to the text, Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós began to write:
( ) in Paris.
( ) in Belo Horizonte.
( ) in the interior of Minas Gerais.
Question 3 – Read back:
“[…] the first book of an extensive work that established him among one of the main authors of Brazilian children's and youth fiction.”
What book does the text refer to?
Question 4 – In the part “He was the creator of the Movement for a Literary Brazil, in which he participated actively.”, the underlined term indicates:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 5 – The excerpt “It also won the Critics’ Prize in Children’s/Youth Literature by APCA, the Jabuti, the Academia Brasileira de Letras Award, among many others.” It is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 6 – In “Lover of words, he said he had the breath of a cat, which him allowed to be born and die several times.”, the word underlined:
( ) resumes Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.
( ) features Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.
( ) characterizes Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.
Question 7 – Identify the year in which, according to the text, Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós “received the Ibero-American Prize for Children's Literature, from the SM Foundation”:
( ) 2000.
( ) 2008.
( ) 2012.
Question 8 – The quotation marks stand out at the end of the text:
( ) a speech by Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.
( ) an excerpt from a work by Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.
( ) an opinion on the work of Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.
Per Denise Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.