ABSTRACT
This text holds on some of the regulatory documents of the Portuguese Language course offered in high schools in Brazil: Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (1999); PCN+ ensino médio (2002), and Orientações curriculares para o ensino médio (2006). It seeks to answer the question: what are the (re) student-reader’s profile to be delivered by regular school to brazilian society? Notes that the graduate of the high school, then appointed as a critical reader of literary texts, had its profile formatted in official texts analyzed here, being the result of an ingenious articulation of ideas and knowledge that in the power plot / namely, allowed their “natura” appearance on the current configuration of the discipline of Portuguese high school language.
KEYWORDS:
official speeches; reader of literary texts; brazilian high school