1. What are the salient provisions of Rizal Law (R.A.

1425)
 Courses on the life, works and writings of Dr. Jose Rizal, particularly the novels
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, shall be included in the curricula of all
schools, colleges and universities, public and private.
 It obliged all schools, colleges and universities to keep in their libraries adequate
number of copies of the original or unexpurgated editions of the Noli Me Tangere
and El Filibusterismo as well as Rizal's other works and biography.
 It authorized and directed the Board of National Education to work for the
translation of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo as well as other writings of
Dr. Jose Rizal into English, Tagalog and other principal dialects and their printing
in cheap or popular editions and their circulation.

2. What are the important issuances relative to the implementations of Rizal

Law?
 Approval of R.A. 1425 on June 12, 1956
 Presidential Memorandum Order 247 dated Dec. 26,1994 – President
Ramos directed the DECS and CHED to immediately and fully implement R.A.
1425.
 CHED Memorandum Order 6 dated February 15, 1996 – CHED ordered all
colleges and universities to offer Rizal course as a separate three-unit course fully
and immediately.
3. Why is Jose Rizal our National Hero?
 Rizal is our greatest hero because, as a towering figure in the Propaganda
Campaign, he took an “admirable part” in that movement which roughly covered
the period from 1882-1896
 Rizal’s writings contributed tremendously to the formation of Filipino nationality
 Rizal becomes the greatest Filipino hero because no Filipino has yet been born
who could equal or surpass Rizal as “a person of distinguished valor or enterprise
in danger, or fortitude in suffering.”
 Rizal is the greatest Filipino hero that ever lived because he is “a man honored
after death by public worship, because of exceptional service to mankind”

4. Who made Jose Rizal our foremost national hero?

No single person or groups of persons were responsible for making the Greatest
Malayan the Number One Hero of his people. Rizal himself, his own people, and the
foreigners all together contributed to make him the greatest hero and martyr of his
people. No amount of adulation and canonization by both Filipinos and foreigners could
convert Rizal into a great hero if he did not possess in himself what Palma calls
“excellent qualities and merits”
5. Briefly trace the biography of Jose Rizal to include the paternal and maternal
ancestors.
 RIZAL’S PARENTS
o Don Francisco Mercado (1818-1898) – FATHER
o Doña Teodora Alonso Realonda (1826-1911) – MOTHER
RIZAL’S CHILDREN
1. Saturnina (1850-1913)
2. Paciano (1851-1930)
3. Narcisa (1852-1939)
4. Olimpia (1855-1887)
5. Lucia (1857-1919)
6. Maria (1859-1945)

RIZAL’S ANCESTRY 7. Jose (1861-1896)

FATHER’S SIDE 8. Concepcion (1862-1865)
9. Josefa (1865-1945)
Domingo Lamco Ines de la Rosa
10.Trinidad (1868-1951)
Francisco Mercado Cirila Bernacha(1870-1929)
11.Soledad

Juan Mercado Cirila Alejandro

Had thirteen children, the youngest being

Francisco Mercado (Rizal’s father)
MOTHER’S SIDE

Lakandula

Eugenio Ursua Benigma

Regina Manuel de Quintos

Brigida Lorenzo Alberto Alonso

Narcisa, Teodora (Rizal’s mother), Gregorio, Manuel at Jose

6. Name/enumerate the writings of Dr. Jose Rizal and identify each
writing/literary works as to Prose and Poetry.

POEMS
 "Farewell to 1883"
 "Por la Educación Re
 cibe Lustre la Patria" (Through Education Is the Nation Glorified)
 "Sa Aking mga Kabata" (To My Fellow Youth)
 "Mi último adiós" (My Last Farewell)
 "Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo"
 "Felicitation"
 "Flower Among Flowers"
 "Goodbye to Leonor"
 "Himno Al Trabajo" (Dalit sa Paggawa; Hymn to Labor)
 "Himno Al Talisay" (Hymn to Talisay)
 "Kundiman"
 "Mi Retiro"
 "El Canto del Viajero" (The Song of the Wanderer)
 "To the Child Jesus"
 "To the Virgin Mary"
 "Agua y Fiego" (Water and Fire)
 "Me Piden Versos" (They Asked Me for Verses)

PROSE
 Noli Me Tángere, novel, 1887
 El Filibusterismo, (novel, 1891), sequel to Noli Me Tángere
 Alin Mang Lahi (“Whate’er the Race”), a Kundiman attributed to Dr. Jose
Rizal
 The Friars and the Filipinos (Unfinished)
 Toast to Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo (Speech, 1884), given at Restaurante
Ingles, Madrid
 The Diaries of José Rizal
 Rizal’s Letters is a compendium of Dr. Jose Rizal’s letters to his family
members, Blumentritt, Fr. Pablo Pastells and other reformers
“Come se gobiernan las Filipinas” (Governing the Philippine islands)
 Filipinas dentro de cien años essay, 1889–90 (The Philippines a Century
Hence)
 La Indolencia de los Filipinos, essay, 1890 (The indolence of Filipinos)[51]
 Makamisa unfinished novel
 Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos, essay, 1889, To the Young Women of
Malolos
 Annotations to Antonio de Moragas, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (essay,
1889, Events in the Philippine Islands)