PAINT A PICTURE / RIZAL

Introduction of Topic by Junel

Narration: Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan. It was a typical schooling that a son of an ilustrado family
received during his time, characterized by the four R’s- reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. Instruction was rigid and strict.
Knowledge was forced into the minds of the pupils by means of the tedious memory method aided by the teacher’s whip. Despite
the defects of the Spanish system of elementary education, Rizal was able to acquire the necessary instruction preparatory for
college work in Manila. It may be said that Rizal, who was born a physical weakling, rose to become an intellectual giant not
because of, but rather in spite of, the outmoded and backward system of instruction obtaining in the Philippines during the last
decades of Spanish regime.

The Hero’s First Teacher

The first teacher of Rizal was his mother, who was a remarkable woman of good character and fine culture. On her lap, he
learned at the age of three the alphabet and the prayers. "My mother," wrote Rizal in his student memoirs, "taught me how to
read and to say haltingly the humble prayers which I raised fervently to God."

(SCENE 1)

Actor/Actress Needed : 5 persons

I illustrate na gina tudluan ni Dona Teodora si Rizal (mag gunit ug book) then naa sa likod sila Maestro Celestino &
Maestro Lucas Padua, then later on Leon Monroy

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Narration: As Jose grew older, his parents employed private tutors to give him lessons at home. The first was Maestro Celestino
and the second, Maestro Lucas Padua. Later, an old man named Leon Monroy, a former classmate of Rizal’s father, became the
boy’s tutor. This old teacher lived at the Rizal home and instructed Jose in Spanish and Latin. Unfortunately, he did not lived
long. He died five months later.

After a Monroy’s death, the hero’s parents decided to send their gifted son to a private school in Biñan.

Jose Goes to Biñan

One Sunday afternoon in June , 1869, Jose, after kissing the hands of his parents and a tearful parting from his sister, left
Calamba for Biñan. He was accompanied by Paciano , who acted as his second father. The two brothers rode in a carromata,
reaching their destination after one and one-half hours’ drive.

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Actor/Actress Needed: 4 persons

Mag action ug lakaw si Rizal then maghilak ang Mother & Siblings ni Rizal.

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Narration: First Day in Biñan School

The next morning (Monday) Paciano brought his younger brother to the school of Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz.

The school was in the house of the teacher, which was a small nipa hut about 30 meters from the home of Jose’s aunt.
Immediately, Jose was assigned his seat in the class. The teacher asked him:

"Do you know Spanish?"

"A little, sir," replied the Calamba lad.
"Do you know Latin?"
"A little, sir."

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Actor/Actress Needed: 4 persons and Pupils- laughing

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Narration: First School Brawl

In the afternoon of his first day in school, when the teacher was having his siesta, Jose met the bully, Pedro. He was angry at
this bully for making fun of him during his conversation with the teacher in the morning.

Jose challenged Pedro to a fight. The latter readily accepted, thinking that he could easily beat the Calamba boy who was smaller
and younger.

The two boys wrestled furiously in the classroom, much to the glee of their classmates. Jose, having learned the art of wrestling
from his athletic Tio Manuel, defeated the bigger boy. For this feat, he became popular among his classmates.

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Actor/Actress Needed: 2 persons

Mag wrestling si Rizal & Pedro.

Narration: After the class in the afternoon, a classmate named Andres Salandanan challenged him to an arm-wrestling match.
They went to a sidewalk of a house and wrestled with their arms. Jose, having the weaker arm, lost and nearly cracked his head
on the sidewalk.

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Actor/Actress Needed: 2 persons

Mag arm-wrestling si Rizal & Andres

Narration: Painting Lessons in Binan

Near the school was the house of an old painter, called Juancho, who the father in-law of the school teacher. Old juancho gave
him lessons in drawing & painting. Jose and his classmate, Jose Guevarra, who also love painting, became apprentices of the old
painter.

(SCENE 6)
Actor/Actress Needed: 3 persons

Mag act na nag paint kunuhay si Rizal kauban si Juancho

Narration: Daily Life in Binan

Jose led to a methodical life in Binan, almost Spartan in simplicity. Such a life contributed too much to his future development. It
strengthened his body & soul.

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Mu attend ug 4 o’clock mass, then magkaon ug dinner sa mabolo.

Narration: Best Student in School

In academic studies, Jose beat all Biñan boys. He surpassed them all in Spanish, Latin, and other subjects.

Some of his older classmates were jealous of his intellectual superiority. They wickedly squealed to the teacher whenever Jose
had a fight outside the school, and even told lies to discredit him before the teacher’s eyes. Consequently the teacher had to
punish Jose.

(Scene 8)

Actor/Actress Needed: 3 persons

Tagaan ug award si Rizal then mag sumbong/daotan nila si Rizal, then I punished si Rizal sa iyahang Teacher.

Narration: End of Binan Schooling

Before the Christmas season in 1870, Jose received a letter from his sister Saturnina, informing him of the arrival of the steamer
Talim which would take him from binan to Calamba.

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Actor/Actress Needed: 2 persons

Mag collect ug Pebbles si Rizal for Souvenirs kay kabalo naman siya na dili na siya makabalik sa binan.

Narration: Early Schooling in Biñan

Jose had a very vivid imagination and a very keen sense of observation. At the age of seven he traveled with his father for the
first time to Manila and thence to Antipolo to fulfill the promise of a pilgrimage made by his mother at the time of his birth. They
embarked in a casco, a very ponderous vessel commonly used in the Philippines.

When he was nine years old, his father sent him to Biñan to continue studying Latin, because his first teacher had died. His
brother Paciano took him to Biñan one Sunday, and Jose bade his parents and sisters good-bye with tears in his eyes. Oh, how it
saddened him to leave for the first time and live far from his home and his family! But he felt ashamed to cry and had to conceal
his tears and sentiments. "O Shame," he explained, "how many beautiful and pathetic scenes the world would witness without
thee!"

Jose spent his leisure hours with Justiniano’s father-in-law, a master painter. From him he took his first two sons, two nephews,
and a grandson. His way life was methodical and well regulated. He heard mass at four if there was one that early, or studied his
lesson at that hour and went to mass afterwards. Returning home, he might look in the orchard for a mambolo fruit to eat, then
he took his breakfast, consisting generally of a plate of rice and two dried sardines.

While he was studying in Biñan, he returned to his hometown now and then. How long the road seemed to him in going and how
short in coming! When from afar he descried the roof of his house, secret joy filled his breast. How he looked for pretexts to
remain longer at home! A day more seemed to him a day spent in heaven, and how he wept, though silently and secretly, when
he saw the calesa that was flower that him Biñan! Then everything looked sad; a flower that he touched, a stone that attracted
his attention he gathered, fearful that he might not see it again upon his return. It was a sad but delicate and quite pain that
possessed him.

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Actor/Actress Needed: All except sa mag narrate (not sure)

I illustrate lang unsa ang gibuhat ni Rizal during his School days in Binan.