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Activity: Fact or Bluff

Instructions: I’m going to show you some
questions and you have to decide if they are
fact or bluff. Use your vevoxapp to answer.
"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

ROBERT HEINLEIN

Game: Vevox Question

Meeting ID: 112-626-718 (9-1030am) 1. History is the study of the past.
Fact or Bluff

Question Question
2. History was derived from the word 3. The writing of history is called historical
hagiography. method.
Fact or Bluff • Fact or Bluff

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Question Question
4. Ambeth Ocampo, Fernando Amorsolo ,Renato 5. Lapu Lapu was a Filipino leader in Mindanao.
Constantino, and Sonia Zaide are historians. Fact or Bluff
Fact or Bluff

Question Question
6. A historical fact is a fact about the past. 7. Historiography is the writing of history.
Fact or Bluff Fact or Bluff

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Intended Learning Outcomes:
1. Define history, historical method and
historiography; and
2. Give the importance of history.
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Introduction to History
Lecture #1
Cristy Lopez
Definition of History
• Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía)- “Knowledge acquired
through inquiry or investigation” Candelaria, JL& Alporha, V. (2018)
• ἱστορία (historía)- meaning “Learning” Gottschalk, L.
(1969)
• History - A study of the events of the past, how and why they
happened, as well as what happened as a result Halili, (2004)
• History - “ recorded struggle of the people for ever increasing
freedom and for newer and higher realization of the human
person” Constantino, R. & Constantino , L. ( 1993)
• History- “a record of events showing the evolution of man and his
society from the earliest and from the age of barbarism to what is today
“– De Viana, 2019
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History as a discipline Factual History

• Existed around 2400 years • A historical fact is a fact about the past.
• As old as mathematics and philosophy • Presents the plain and basic information
• Latin historía – adapted and acquired a new
• It answers the very basic question, "What
definition – it became known as the “ account of the
past of a person or of group of people through happened?"
written documents and historical evidences

Speculative History Is History Useful?

• Events in history that may have an
alternate history or questionable history.
• means that something that can be viewed from
different angles or views.
• Answers the questions : why and how
( Cantal,Cardinal, Espino& Galindo, 2014 as cited in ligan et al, 2018)
e.g. The Tejeros Convention
• Window of the past
• Understanding the past is the key to understanding the
present
• It helps us to appreciate multiple perspectives and
interpretations
• Analysing history strengthens our critical thinking skills
• It trains us to gather evidences, and find patterns and
trends
• It gives us understanding of other people and culture
• It challenges us to think outside the box and to be
creative

Why Do We Need to Study Readings How do we understand

in Philippine History? history?
• It allows the students of the country’s past to • Historians/Political Scientists, Social Scientists,
read the actual sources of the story of the etc. use the Scientific Method to address
nation . various questions….
• It allows the students to develop his own e.g.
perspective about his country’s past.
• It will fulfil the desire to allow every 1. What were the causes of the French
generation to have their own insight about the Revolution?
past and how they will be able to learn from 2.Why was there an EDSA Revolution?
it.

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Scientific Process for

Definition of Historiography
historians
Historiography: the writing of history; especially : the
writing of history based on the critical examination of sources
the product of historical writing ,( merriam-webster.com/dictionary)

Historical Analysis Assessment Activity: Construction of Model

1. selects the subject to investigate
2. Collect probable sources of information on
the subject
3. Examine the sources genuineness in part of in
whole
4. Extract credible particular from the sources.
Instructions: Construct a sample model for your
own concept of history. Enhance the model in an
appealing and eye-catching ways that
emphasize a compelling idea for others to
embrace history.

Example of a model

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