TEACHING AND LEARNING LITERATURE IN SECONDARY EDUCATION: ROMANTICISM AND REALISM

This article discusses several teaching proposals intended to work Romanticism and Realism, two literary movements included in the first term of the anual programming of the fourth grade of the spanish compulsory secondary education. The aim of these proposals is to turn students into an active part of the lessons through activities that encourage creativity, reflection, reading comprehension and interpretation as well as reading assessment. In the same vain, we hope that students stop conceiving literature as something boring and away from books, just as they have expressed to us, and we also encourage them to ponder if, perhaps, the conception of the developed world in such movements during the nineteenth century can help them to understand better today's society.