Studying Rizals Childhood
Studying Rizals Childhood
Studying Rizals Childhood
RIZAL
RIZAL AS A NATIONAL
HERO
Informal declaration
Recognition of Rizal as a hero by:
1892 Andres Bonifacio
1897 Emilio Aguinaldo declared December 30 as Rizal Day
Formal declaration (1901)
The Americans saw the necessity of a national hero for the new
Philippine Republic
Their choices for a national hero were:
1. Jose Rizal
2. Andres Bonifacio
3. Emilio Aguinaldo
4. Apolinario Mabini
SPANISH PERIOD
(1565 1898)
Spanish colonialism in the Philippines
1565 1600
1600 1700
Efficient colonial governance
1700 1800
1800 1898 decline & weakening of Spanish
colonial power.
PHILIPPINES :
JOSE RIZALS
TIME
(19TH CENTURY PHILIPPINES)
19TH CENTURY
PHILIPPINES
SOCIAL CLASS
A HERO IS
BORN
BIRTH OF PEPE
RIZALS PARENTS
Don Francisco Mercado (1818-1898)
-born in Bian, Laguna on May 11, 1818
-studied Latin and Philosophy at the College of San Jose in Manila
-died in Manila on January 5, 1898 at the age of 80
Doa Teodora Alonso Realonda (1826-1911)
-born in Manila on November 8, 1826
-educated at the College of Santa Rosa, a well-known college for girls in
the city
- died in Manila on August 16, 1911 at the age of 85
RIZAL SIBLINGS
1. Saturnina (1850-1913)
2. Paciano (1851-1930)
3. Narcisa (1852-1939)
4. Olimpia (1855-1887)
5. Lucia (1857-1919)
6. Maria (1859-1945)
7. Jose (1861-1896)
8. Concepcion (1862-1865)
9. Josefa (1865-1945)
10. Trinidad (1868-1951)
11. Soledad (1870- 1929) (Debatable)
MERCADO TO RIZAL
Original surname was MERCADO (market)
1849 Gov. Gen. Narciso Claveria mandated that all inhabitants of
the colony was to adopt a surname.
But the new surname Rizal was used after 1872.
FATHERS SIDE
MOTHERS SIDE
JOSE
RIZALS
CHILDHOOD
CHILDHOOD
MEMORIES
Rizals dog named Usman
He would frequently the place with his Aya yaya
One day when they were playing, his sisters teased him
because he was always playing alone and making some clay
sculptures.
He responded : Laugh at me now but there will be a day in
which people will build monuments of me
CHILDHOOD YEARS IN
CALAMBA
RIZALS FIRST
SORROW
Another childhood memory was the daily Angelus prayer. By
nightfall, Rizal related, his mother gathered
all the children at the house to pray the Angelus
The death of little Concha brought Rizal his first sorrow
At the age of three, Rizal began to take a part in the family
prayers
When Rizal was five years old, he was able to read haltingly the
Spanish family bible
ABILITIES OF YOUNG
RIZAL
artist sketches, sculpture
writer - At the age of 8
first poem Sa Aking Mga Kabata?
first drama (performed play) Tagalog comedy
Knows some form of magic tricks
My attention increased from the first sentence. I looked toward the light and fixed my
gaze on the moths which were circling around it. The story could not have been better
timed. My mother repeated the warning of the old moth. She dwelt upon it and
directed it to me. I heard her, but it is a curious thing that the light seemed to me each
time more beautiful, the flame more attractive. I really envied the fortune of the
insects. They frolicked so joyously in its enchanting splendor that the ones which had
fallen and been drowned in the oil did not cause me any dread.
My mother kept on reading and I listened breathlessly. The fate of the two insects
interested me greatly. The flame rolled its golden tongue to one side and a moth which
this movement had singed fell into the oil, fluttered for a time and then became quiet.
That became for me a great event. A curious change came over me which I have
always noticed in myself whenever anything has stirred my feelings. The flame and
the moth seemed to go further away and my mother's words sounded strange and
uncanny. I did not notice when she ended the fable. All my attention was fixed on the
face of the insect. I watched it with my whole soul... It had died a martyr to its illusions.
As she put me to bed, my mother said: "See that you do not behave like the young
moth. Don't be disobedient, or you may get burnt as it did." I do not know whether I
answered or not... The story revealed to me things until then unknown. Moths no
longer were, for me, insignificant insects. Moths talked; they know how to warn. They
advised just like my mother. The light seemed to me more beautiful. It had grown more
dazzling and more attractive. I knew why the moths circled the flame.
ASSIGNMENT
Family Tree
Long Bond paper
Printed or Handwritten