Unit III

Rizal’s Childhood

The childhood of Jose Rizal can be characterized by his desire to learn, even frequenting the
church nearby his home to watch and observe people but not to be religiously inclined.

In Calamba, Laguna
19 June 1861
JOSE RIZAL, the seventh child of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso y Quintos,
was born in Calamba, Laguna.

22 June 1861
He was baptized JOSE RIZAL MERCADO at the Catholic of Calamba by the parish priest Rev.
Rufino Collantes with Rev. Pedro Casañas as the sponsor.

28 September 1862
The parochial church of Calamba and the canonical books, including the book in which
Rizal’s baptismal records were entered, were burned.

1864
Barely three years old, Rizal learned the alphabet from his mother.

1865
When he was four years old, his sister Conception, the eight child in the Rizal family, died at
the age of three. It was on this occasion that Rizal remembered having shed real tears for
the first time.

1865 – 1867
During this time his mother taught him how to read and write. His father hired a classmate
by the name of Leon Monroy who, for five months until his (Monroy) death, taught Rizal the
rudiments of Latin.

At about this time two of his mother’s cousin frequented Calamba. Uncle Manuel Alberto,
seeing Rizal frail in body, concerned himself with the physical development of his young
nephew and taught the latter love for the open air and developed in him a great admiration
for the beauty of nature, while Uncle Gregorio, a scholar, instilled into the mind of the boy
love for education. He advised Rizal: "Work hard and perform every task very carefully;
learn to be swift as well as thorough; be independent in thinking and make visual pictures
of everything."

6 June 1868
With his father, Rizal made a pilgrimage to Antipolo to fulfill the vow made by his mother to
take the child to the Shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo should she and her child survive the
ordeal of delivery which nearly caused his mother’s life.

From there they proceeded to Manila and visited his sister Saturnina who was at the time
studying in the La Concordia College in Sta. Ana.
1869

At the age of eight, Rizal wrote his first poem entitled "Sa Aking Mga Kabata." The poem
was written in tagalog and had for its theme "Love of One’s Language."

To know more about the life of Jose Rizal, please watch the YouTube video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVs_E59e4kE

Activity 3

(Tracing the Timeline of Rizal’s childhood years)

What is Timeline? It is a chronological arrangement of events in the order of their occurrence.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Each student enrolled in USTP-Claveria, in the course, The Life and Works of Jose Rizal, must
make and submit Jose Rizal’s Timeline about Childhood years.
2. The timeline must focus on the events of Rizal’s life during his childhood days.
3. It can be a hand written then convert it to any media file format (jpeg, pdf ) it can also be in
a Microsoft word or a Power point.
4. You can use any form or template of your timeline, it can be a ladder, chain of events, story
board or a foldable timeline and so on.
5. Students name, course year and section must be written and visible on the artwork.
6. Output may be submitted thru Google Classroom or in USTeP starting on September 27, 2021. The
deadline for submission is on September 3, 2021 4:59PM.

Sample Output