ACTIVITY 1

1. Republic Act No. 1425, known as the Rizal Law aimed at including
a study of the life and works of Jose Rizal in public and private
schools. The Recto Law or Rizal’s Law wanted the young Filipino
ladies and gentlemen to study and it will tackle all about
technicalities and provisions. As he put himself before the firing
squad and now standing in Luneta, he wanted the Filipinos to be
educated. His main idea was education, core of his concept of the
Filipino. It is the central of his philosophy and that education is
timeless. This Republic Act calls for an increase sense of nationalism
from the Filipinos during a time of a dwinding Filipino identity.

2. When the Catholic Church in the Philippines found out about

Recto’s bill, it mobilized its forces to prevent the bill from becoming
law. Ironically, almost 70 years after the publication of Noli Me
Tangere, the Church still viewed Rizal’s novels as blasphemous. The
Catholic Church of 120 years ago used the same influence in
preventing the novels to be read by Filipinos. Those who opposed the
Rizal Bill painted Recto as communist and anti-Catholic. According to
Abinales and Amoroso (2005), the Church feared the bill would
violate freedom of conscience and religion.

3. Some lessons we can learn from the life of Jose Rizal are to
rededicate the lives of youth to the ideals of freedom and
nationalism, for which our heroes lived and died, to pay tribute to our
national hero for devoting his life and works in shaping the Filipino
character, and to gain an inspiring source of patriotism through
the study of Rizal's life, works, and writings.

ACTIVITY 2