This research aimed to understand the meanings of the Covid-19 pandemic in biology
teaching, presented through Comics, produced by students of the 3rd grade of high school at
Colégio Estadual Jorge Amado in Araguaína - TO. Seeking to understand the conditions of
broad production of the meanings that are attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic, we analyzed
what the informative sheets and scientific articles about Covid-19, contained in the WHO
website, Fiocruz Foundation, Unesco and Scientific Journals say, in addition to to analyze the
virology content contained in the textbook adopted by the school unit. As for the meanings
produced under strict production conditions, we seek to understand what the students'
discourses say, or do not say, through the production of Comics (HQ) on the Covid-19
pandemic and a questionnaire with open and closed questions. We adopted as a theoretical
and methodological framework the Discourse Analysis with contributions from the works of
Eni Orlandi, mobilizing analytical devices such as reading, paraphrase, polysemy, intertext,
mechanisms of anticipation and discursive formations. The results demonstrate that the
meanings about the Covid-19 pandemic are related to the conditions of broad production and
the reader-text-author interaction, as we can observe in the intertwining between the
statements present in the questionnaires and the comics produced by the students. In addition,
the intertext and the mechanism of anticipation are manifested in the results when we perceive
in the comics the displacement of statements present in the Textbooks. Therefore, we consider
that the diversity of interpretations of the meanings about the Covid-19 pandemic showed us a
constant game between paraphrase and polysemy, because, as we analyze, we discover new
affiliations for a said or not said, attesting to the non-transparency of language.
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