Patrícia Peluso Condé is from Ubá, Minas Gerais. She teaches Portuguese, English and Writing in her city's private school system. This book emerged from an article written for the subject Contemporary Debates on Curriculum and Teaching in her Master's course in Education. The book traces a timeline in search of the origins of the school curriculum in Brazilian schools, its specificities and applications and arrives at the National Common Curriculum Base, which is being introduced in the country's educational institutions. Through this historical process, the author seeks to show that the school curriculum is permeated with ideology, culture and power relations, and is therefore a reflection of the time in which it is in force.