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Name:Jose Maria Karl A. Dy Class number: _________________

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Lesson Title: Humanizing Rizal: Rizal’s standpoint on women Materials:

and education. Was he a feminist or a
PEN PC modules
misogynist?
References:
https://www.academia.edu/
7322824/
Learning Target: Rizals_Letter_to_the_Young_W
omen_of_Malolos
At the end of this lesson I can:
1. realize how our national hero viewed women and education “opened his eyes and heart to
during his time. the world around him—with all
its soul and poetry, as well as its
1. bigotry and injustice

2. womenintheworld/chapter/
chapter-2-women-and-
education/

Productivity Tip:
After finishing this module, share what you’ve learned to your parents/bother/sister/friend.

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
1) Introduction (2 mins)

Hello there! I hope you had a pleasurable reading experience about the women in Rizal’s life. This time
we will find out how our national hero viewed women and education when he was still alive. In our last
lesson you were asked to share your opinion if Rizal was a womanizer. Please take note of the
following:
● He did not seem to be one.
● He was an intellectual and traveled far and wide.
● He had the opportunity to associate with people of means and intellect like him.
● Naturally, he was exposed to a variety of women who admired his intellect.

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● He didn’t father any children from these women except for Josephine Bracken, who unfortunately had a
miscarriage.
● He was connected to several women in his time, but he was, by no means, a womanizer.

2) Activity 1: What I Know Chart, part 1 (3 mins)

Read the questions in the middle and write your answers in the What I Know column. Leave the
What I learned section unanswered this time. You will go back to it later.

It’s alright if you just write a word or a phrase that signifies the meaning of the term in the chart

What I Know Questions: What I Learned

It is the belief in social,

It is about a belief in
which you are equal with
others even you are
different in gender
economic, and political
1. What is your idea about equality of the sexes
feminism?

It is about making the is a person who hates,

women feel that they are dislikes, mistrusts, or
2. What is a misogynist?
not equal to the boys mistreats women.

Because everyone has
the right to study
Because everyone
deserves to have a proper
3. Why does educating girls
education.
matter?

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B. MAIN LESSON
1) Activity 2: Content Notes (13 mins)
Instruction: Read the article and answer the question that follows.

Rizal had a strong female role models

Rizal grew up in a dominantly female household. His mother, Teodora Alonso, taught him at a
young age and was the one who “opened his eyes and heart to the world around him – with all its soul
and poetry, as well as bigotry and injustice.” She also imbibed onto him the virtue of obedience, self-
reliance, and to value education above all. But they did have a bit of a falling out when Rizal chose to
become distant to the Catholic faith due to the corruption that’s happening within the church at the time.

Nonetheless, Rizal seemed to have carried the lessons that his mother taught him throughout his
life. He even shared his insight on education to his sister Trinidad and how she deserved to have that
privilege as a woman living in the Philippines. “For this reason, now that you are still young and you
have time to learn, it is necessary that you study by reading and reading attentively. It is a pity that you
allow yourself to be dominated by laziness when it takes so little effort to shake it off. It is enough to
form only the habit of study and later everything goes by itself,” he wrote in a letter from Heidelberg,
Germany.

Women and Education

● Picking up from the above point, Rizal’s letter to Trinidad showed his realization of how different it
would be if women, like his other sister María, would be educated in a liberal country like Germany.
● Rizal pointed out that if his sister María had been educated in Germany, she would have been notable,
because German women are active and somewhat masculine. They are not afraid of men.
● According to him, “German women are more concerned with the substance than with appearances.
Until now I have not heard women quarrelling, which in Madrid is the daily bread.”
● Reflection: The statement may give an idea that he is degrading how Filipinas are living at the time; that
he places German (maybe even European as a whole) womanhood on a pedestal.
● Given the historical context of the Philippines during Spanish rule, where Filipinos in general have been
influenced and became subversive to their colonizers, was his thought process valid?
● Was he making a fair comparison and emphasizing that Filipinas should stop being meek and
unaware?
● Was he also taking into consideration the Filipinas who are in the lower class?
https://preen.ph/77063/how-did-jose-rizal-view-women-when-he-was-still-alive

Feminism
is the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes (Encyclopedia Britannica)3
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and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women’s
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Why educating girls matters

The right to education for all has been an international goal for decades, but since the 1990s, women’s
education and empowerment have come into sharp focus. Several landmark conferences, including the 1994
International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo, and the 1995 Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing, placed these issues at the center of development efforts.
The Millennium Development Goals — agreed to by world leaders at the U.N. Millennium Summit in
2000 — call for universal primary education and for closing the gender gap in secondary and higher education.
These high-level agreements spawned initiatives around the world to increase girls’ school enrolments.
Changes since 1990 have been remarkable, considering the barriers that had to be overcome in developing
countries.
In many traditional societies, girls are prevented from attaining their full potential because of lower
priority placed on educating daughters (who marry and leave the family) and the lower status of girls and
women in general. Families may also have concerns about the school fees, girls being taught by male teachers
and girls’ safety away from home. Governments and communities have begun to break down these barriers,
however, because of overwhelming evidence of the benefits of educating girls.

Few investments have as large a payoff as girls’ education. Household surveys in developing countries
have consistently shown that women with more education have smaller, healthier and better-educated families.
The linkages are clear: Educated women are more likely to take care of their health, desire fewer children and
educate them well, which, in turn, makes it more likely their children will survive and thrive into adulthood.

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Research by the World Bank and other organizations has shown that increasing girls’ schooling boosts
women’s wages and leads to faster economic growth than educating only boys. Moreover, when women earn
more money, they are more likely to invest it in their children and households, enhancing family wealth and
well-being. Other benefits of women’s education captured in studies include lower levels of HIV infection,
domestic violence and harmful practices toward women, such as female genital cutting and bride burning.
By Lori S. Ashford, in https://opentextbc.ca/womenintheworld/chapter/chapter-2-women-and-education/Retrieved

Rizal’s Letter to the Young Women of Malolos

● The letter was written by Rizal on the 17th of February, 1889 when he was in Europe.
● A long letter written in Tagalog to the young women of Malolos in compliance to Marcelo H. Del Pilar’s
request while Rizal was annotating Morga’s book.
● Addressed to 20 courageous young women of Malolos for their perseverance to pursue the
establishment of a night school where they can study Spanish.
● It is argued that the letter is a vindication of Filipino women’s rights during his time.

Based on accounts, on 12 December 1888, 20 young women from Malolos petitioned Governor-General
Weyler for the establishment of a “night school” to study Spanish under Teodoro Sandiko, a professor of Latin.
However, Fr. Felipe Garcia, the Spanish parish priest, objected to the petition, prompting the governor-general
to dismiss the petition. Untroubled, the young women continued with their clamor (for the establishment of the
school) and eventually received permission to open their school on certain conditions.

✔ First, the women were required to fund the school themselves since the government refused to.
✔ Second, their teacher would be Guadalupe Reye rather than Sandico, who had been blacklisted by the
friar-curate of Malolos.
✔ Third, the classes would have to be held in the day and not at night, probably due to the association of
nighttime gatherings with subversive meetings. The school remained open for three months and was
closed down on May 10, 1889.”

❖ Rizal summarized the lessons he wanted to portray in his letter:

1. Some become treacherous because of the cowardice and negligence of others.

2. Lack of self-respect and excessive timidity invite scorn.
3. Ignorance is bondage, because like mind, like man. A man without a will of his own is a man without
personality. The blind that follows other’s opinion is like a beast led by a halter.
4. One who wants to help himself should help others, because, if he neglects others, he too will be
neglected by them.

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5. If the Filipino woman will not change, she should not be entrusted with education of her children.
6. Men are born equal, naked and without chains.
7. Analyze carefully the kind of religion taught to you.

2) Activity 3: Skill-building Activities (with answer key) (18 mins + 2 mins checking)
A. Given the above information, can you make a comparison between the women during the time of
Rizal and the women at the present times? Write the words that describe women in terms of
education in the corresponding space below.

Women during the

time of Rizal (19th Women at the present
century) times (21st century)

Lack of capabilities on
Allowed to do a men`s job
attending school
They have taught that even
Many people mistreat women`s
women can compete with
capabilities
EDUCATION men
Not allowed to do a men`s
Women are free to study
works
because its their right to have
education

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B. Explain in your own words what Rizal said in the above poster.
If you can’t have a proper education freely, you will not know your own purpose. If you can`t
have education, you can’t have the result that you desired. Without education, you will not know
how far you can go with your potential.

3) Activity 4: What I Know Chart, part 2 (2 mins)

Please go back to your activity 1 and accomplish completely your chart. Log in your answers in the last
column based on what you knew from this lesson.

4) Activity 5: Check for Understanding (5 mins)

1. Can you relate the benefits of educating women in general and Filipinas in particular? Cite a specific
situation. For example, the covid -19 pandemic.
The benefits of educating women in general and Filipinas in particular is that, for example in
women as educators or we called them as teachers, women’s are more likely fit to be a teacher
because women knows how to handle a children than men because they are the ones who take
care of their own children while the husbands are always at work.

A. LESSON WRAP-UP
1) Activity 6: Thinking about Learning (5 mins)
Let’s track your progress. Shade the session number you just completed.

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B) “My Learning Tracker”.

In this section, write the learning targets, your scores, learning experience for the session and plan for
the next session.

Date Learning Target/Topic Scores Action Plan

What module# did you What contributed to the quality of your

What were your
What’s the do? What were the performance today? What will you do next
scores in the
date today? learning targets? What session to maintain your performance or
activities?
activities did you do? improve it?

Module #9

I have much more free time in answering today’s lessons, I

9/21/2021 will maintain it by always answering modules earlier than
later.

FAQs
1. Does a feminist have to be female?
Answer: A feminist is the one who acknowledge the power formation that is related to patriarchy (a
system controlled by men). This is considered unfair or even unbearable by many people. This belief
can be held by anyone, regardless of gender. A true feminist is the one knows and listen to those who
are being oppressed.

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2. Do feminists hate men?

Answer: The feminists do not really hate men. What feminists actually hate is the system of
oppression that allows inequality.

KEY TO CORRECTIONS

Activity 3.
A. Possible answers but not limited to:
Women during the time of Rizal (19th Women at the present times (21st
century) century)

limited opportunity wider opportunity

to go to school for school
lack of educational educational
facilities means come in
absence of school various platforms
buildings due to emerging
women education – technological
less priority advancement
B. Possible answer: more confident
It is said to mean that education is a strong foundation for all to become free from the bondage
of poverty, abuse, and oppression.

Activity 5 (answers may vary)

Possible answer: Education is important to both men and women. The word women education can
actually means “education to a nation”. As commonly said, educating a woman is
like educating the entire family.

For checking essay questions, teachers may use this rubric:

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Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner

Features (4) (3) (2) (1)

Written in Written in an Writing has little style Writing has no style;

extraordinary style interesting style and or voice; gives some no new information or
Quality of Writing and voice; very voice; somewhat new information but voice, and very
informative and well- informative and poorly organized poorly organized
organized organized

Grammar usage and Virtually no spelling, few spelling, A number of spelling, So many spelling,
Mechanics punctuation, or punctuation, or punctuation, or punctuation or
grammatical errors grammatical errors grammatical errors grammatical errors
that interferes with
the meaning

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