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Lesson 2

The History of the Philippines from Agoncillo, Fox and Scott

PRE-ASSESSMENT

True or False. Write Mildred if the statement is true. Otherwise, write Sescon in the space
provided.

__________ 1. History is reliable all the time.

__________ 2. All the things that has been written in the History of the Filipino People are
only by written by the author.
__________ 3. Teodoro Agoncillo is a historian.
__________ 4. The Tabon man is not only found in Palawan.
__________ 5. The Tabon man dead bodies are buried in the cave.
__________ 6. The Manunggul Jar are used for fetching drinking water.
__________ 7. The skull cap that was found in the cave is owned by a man.
__________ 8. Only jars are found in the Tabon Cave.
__________ 9. The Tabon cave is named after the bats that lived inside the cave.
__________ 10. Robert Fox is a Filipino.

LESSON MAP

History of
the Filipino
People

History of
the
Philippine
(Part 1)
Prehispanic Source The
Materials for the
Study of Philippine Tabon
History Cave

This figure is just the first part of many sources that talks about the history of our very own Philippines. These
three are the first to tackle to understand deeply the essence of primary and secondary sources together with
the two criticisms.
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Lesson Learning Outcomes

In this lesson, you should be able to:

1. examine an assess critically the values of historical evidences and sources given into this
topics;
2. appreciate the importance of history in the social and national life of the Philippines; and
3. apply the knowledge in historical methodology and philosophy in assessing and analyzing
existing historical evidences.

CONTENT

ENGAGE Remembering our Ancestors

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1. As you see the pictures above, what do you see?

2. What comes to your mind?
3. Can you tell that they are also Filipinos like you? Explain.

EXPLORE

• History of the Filipino People by Teodoro Agoncillo

https://www.scribd.com/doc/184787039/History-of-the-Filipino-People-Agoncillo

This link is not even close to the information that can be read in the actual book, but this is
just a piece of certain information that can be read inside the book. Through this small data
we can tell a very brief proof of what does Filipino do and believe in the past. Kindly click the
link and read this three pages of the actual book.
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• The Tabon Caves by Robert Fox

https://pages.upd.edu.ph/sites/default/files/pawlik/files/fox_1970_the_tabon_caves_-
_archaeological_explorations_and_excavations_on_palawan_ocr.pdf

This link is not an actual book, but this is close to what is the content of the book. It tells
almost all the information that we needed about the Tabon man who was discovered here in
the Philippines. Kindly click the link and read.

• Prehispanic Source Materials for the Study of Philippine History by William Henry Scott
http://www.philippinestudies.net/files/journals/1/articles/1764/public/1764-3509-1-PB.pdf

The link is not the actual book that focuses on our topic, but by this we can be able to tell
what happened in the past and identify whether we found a primary or secondary source or
even the tertiary. Kindly read it by clicking the link.
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EXPLAIN Enriching your Thoughts

1. By reading this information about our past, what do you feel?

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2. What have you learned through reading these sources?
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3. What sources these data belongs to? And why?
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TOPIC SUMMARY

At the end of this lesson, you have learned that:

• We are Filipinos with plenty of beliefs and great culture.

• Patriotism is a great values for us Filipinos.
• Back then, the first man that has been discovered was found here in the Philippines and that
was the tabon man in Palawan.
• We have great heritage and great history.
• Filipinos was already build before we were colonized by the Spaniards.
• We have already our very own identity and uniqueness.
• Because of these great historians we were able to discover what we are a long time ago.

POST-ASSESSMENT

True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is true. Otherwise, write FALSE in the space provided.

__________ 1. History is the study of the past.

__________ 2. Historical sources that were not written should not be used in writing history.
__________ 3. The subject of historiography is history itself.
__________ 4. History has no use for the present, thus, the saying “past is past” is true.
__________ 5. History is limited to the story of a hero versus a villain.
__________ 6. Only primary sources may be used in writing history.
__________ 7. There are three types of sources: primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.
__________ 8. External criticism is done by examining the physical characteristics of a
source.
__________ 9. Internal criticism is done by looking at a source’s quality of paper and type of
ink, among others.
__________ 10. The historians are the only source of history.
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REFERENCES

Weblinks:
• https://www.scribd.com/doc/184787039/History-of-the-Filipino-People-Agoncillo
• https://pages.upd.edu.ph/sites/default/files/pawlik/files/fox_1970_the_tabon_caves_-
_archaeological_explorations_and_excavations_on_palawan_ocr.pdf
• http://www.philippinestudies.net/files/journals/1/articles/1764/public/1764-3509-1-PB.pdf