MENDOZA, RICO JOHN C.

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Readings in Philippine History

Activities

Activity No. 1:

How will you describe /define history starting with it’s letters. Write your answers
on the designated whiteboards.
Note: In answering you may use one word or group of words (phrase). 20pts.

H-umanity and the world

I-ncessant undertaking

S-tory and Narratives

T-imelines

O-ld days of before

Activity No. 2 . Letter from a Historian
Scenario and Direction: Imagine you are a celebrity Historian. You are to make a RESPONSE
R-ecord of events
LETTER for your fan’s query, asking for the relevance of History in our country. Use 10
sentences.

Y-ears of the past

Thank you for corresponding to this fan mailbox, dear fan. As a renowned historian, it’s
a duty and responsibility to give and make a good perspective and scope of our history
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as a country, its people and its culture. We as a Filipino, are resourceful, sociable, fun-
loving, hospitable, and family oriented people and its roots have been in our history.
Learning Philippine History through the Filipino perspective is important because we as
a country has always been occupied by some foreign powers like Spain, Japan, and the
US and by that, I mean that our history is also being recorded to their own perspectives.
As a historian I believe that we should have our history centered only through our
narratives and try to disassociate western thoughts and perceptions through it. One
example would be the “barbaric” or “simple minded” view of our natives here in our
country by western historians but in fact, our natives are also capable and resourceful
such as the Katutubo in Mountain Province’s Banaue Rice Terraces. Before our colonial
past we Filipinos have a form of basic government, the Datus and the likes on which
acts as a designated ruler of a clan or an area of territory on which are also capable of
trading to other civilizations of before such as merchants in China and the Arabs long
before we have been colonized. In the Boxer Codex of the Spanish, it has been
recorded that we have a certain sense of sophistication through our fashion such as the
extravagant necklaces and accessories adorned with gold, the cultural significances of
tattoos, and the textile of the clothes being used. In short, we are a rich country with a
lot of diversity and yet it’s been underrated and not being given focused much in
modern times. We as a country should promote its own cultures and is given a spotlight
to our modern Philippine setting. It is also important to realize our footing of our history
and culture to our South East Asian neighbors and try to get along with them too with
our shared history with them. Lastly, we should enrich and preserve our lost and
remaining history and give value to some of the less recognized cultures that we have
here in the Philippines because a country would not be felt like a country if its culture
does not have its own identity.

Activity No.3.

Venn Diagram. Using the diagram below discuss the similarities and differences between Internal and
External Criticism.

INTERNAL CRITICISM EXTERNAL CRITICISM

SIMILARITIES
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Both an important tool to be able

Determines the reliability to have an accurate and valid Determines the
and accuracy of the interpretation and view of History authenticity, validity, and
information within a since History is relative to its time trustworthiness of the
source and period. source