GROUP 1  Studying History Is Essential for Good Citizenship

ARTOZA, Christian Jelo  To put this simply, studying history encourages habits of mind that
BARCIA, Mark Quiven are vital for responsible public behavior and one of the reasons is
BAUTISTA, Kyle Angelique E. because It offers evidence also about how nations have interacted
with other societies, providing international and comparative
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perspectives essential for responsible citizenship.
READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY
 History Is Useful in the World of Work
HISTORY AND RELEVANCE  Employers often seek for students with the skills that historical
HISTORY studies promote, such as the ability to find and evaluate sources of
- History is the interpretation of the past, one in which serious effort is made information, basic writing, and basic reading skills.
to filter out myths and fables.
- History helps us understand the people and society. DISTINGUISHING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
- History contains several information that will help us understand the
What is a Primary Source?
behavior of people and societies.
- Primary sources are sources which came into existence during the actual
- Only through history can we grasp how things change. Only through
period of the past which the historian is studying, they are those relics and
studying history can we comprehend the factors that cause change; And
traces left by the past.
only through history can we understand what elements of an institution or
a society persist despite change.
What is a Secondary Source?
 History is important in our own lives - Secondary sources are those accounts written later by historians looking
 History as an art and entertainment serves a real purpose, on back upon a period in the past.
aesthetic grounds but also on the level of human understanding.
 The same humanistic goals inspire people to immerse themselves in DISTINGUISHING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
efforts to reconstruct quite remote pasts, which are far removed
- The primary source is the raw material, more meaningful to the expert
from immediate, present-day utility.
historian than to the ordinary reader; the secondary source is the coherent
 History Contributes to Moral Understanding
work of history, article, dissertation or book, in which both the intelligent
 History also provides a terrain for moral contemplation. Studying the
general reader and the historian who is venturing upon a new research
stories of individuals and situations in the past allows a student of
topic, or keeping in touch with new discoveries in his chosen field, or
history to test his or her own moral sense, to hone it against some of
seeking to widen his general historical knowledge, will look for what they
the real complexities individuals have faced in difficult settings.
want.
 History Provides Identity
 Historical data includes evidence about how families, groups, and EXTERNAL CRITICISM
institutions were formed and about how they have evolved while
It is the practice of verifying the authenticity by examining its:
retaining cohesion. It also tells the story of a nation to drive home
understanding of national values and a commitment to national
loyalty.  physical characteristics
 consistency with the historical characteristic
  materials used for the evidence 2. National Library of the Philippines
- The National Library of the Philippines (NLP) is the repository of the
THINGS TO CONSIDER: printed and recorded cultural heritage of the country and other
intellectual, literary and information sources.
 QUALITY OF THE PAPER
 TYPE OF THE INK KINDS OF PRIMARY SOURCES
 LANGUAGE AND WORDS USED IN THE MATERIAL
archives and manuscript material
INTERNAL CRITICISM photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, films
journals, letters and diaries
It is the examination of the truthfulness of the evidence. It looks at the content of speeches
the source and the circumstance of its production. scrapbooks
published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the
 content of the source time
 circumstance of its production

THINGS TO CONSIDER:

 AUTHOR
 CONTEXT
 AGENDA BEHIND ITS CREATION
 KNOWLEDGE WHICH INFORMED IT
 INTENDED PURPOSE

REPOSITORIES OF PRIMARY SOURCES

A central location in which primary sources of information is stored and
managed.
REPOSITORIES IN THE PHILIPPINES:

1. National Archives of the Philippines

- Its main responsibility is to preserve the primary sources of information
on Philippine history, the basic components of cultural heritage and
collective memory.