NAME: Kevin Paul Paragua Deaño

COURSE/YEAR/SECTION: BSEd-Science/2/A
INSTRUCTOR: Julie P. Galano

Learning Task: Answer the following questions COMPREHENSIVELY. (10 points each.)
Submit your answer in our google classroom.
Criteria:
5 points ----- Grammar
5points------- Relevance
10 points Total

1. Why is content and contextual analysis important?

➢ Both are important! Because Content analysis is a systemic evaluation of the
primary source be it a text, painting, caricature, and/or speech that in the process
students could develop and present an argument based on their own understanding
of the evidences form their readings. The students will identify pertinent
information from the texts/documents and explain its importance to their
understanding of history in the Philippine setting. While, Contextual analysis
considers specifically the time, place, and situation when the primary source was
written. The analysis as well includes the author 's background, authority on the
subject and intent perceptible, and its relevance and meaning to people and society
today (Ligo, et.al., 2018). Content and contextual analysis is an indispensable
approach to strengthen the students critical and analytical thinking skills and their
ability to articulate their own ideas, views and perspectives on a certain primary
data or source. In order to achieve this, primary sources will be used and utilized
for analysis.

2. How can analyzing primary sources contextually and in terms of context enable you to
understand and appreciate our history?
➢ As for me, we are performing the historian 's most important work when you assess
a primary source. Examining the references that people from that time left behind,
whether journals, newspaper papers, letters, court case records, novels, artworks,
poems, or memoirs, is the finest approach to understand events in the past. You 'll
need two elements to interpret a primary source: the text itself and the chronological
period in which it was created. The readings and lectures you do in class will
provide you with details on the historical period. You must think on the text on your
own. When reviewing sources, we should start by looking at the physical qualities
of each one. If you 're dealing with an original source, such as a real ancient letter
rather than a transcribed and published version of the same letter, this is very
significant and powerful. We must also consider the objective of the sources you
used. Primary sources allow people to connect with historical events on a more
personal level, creating a better understanding of history as a collection of human
experiences. Because primary sources are fragments of history, each one is a puzzle
that can only be solved by unearthing new evidence.
3. Is it at our advantage if we use content and contextual analysis in reading our history?
Explain your answer.
➢ Yes! As for me, reading history is both sad as well as an informative and
invigorative experience. It is said that many people never learn from history.
However, those who have an open mind and positive thinking will interpret
historical events in their context.

According to Grace Fleming, Historical context is an important part of life and

literature, and without it, memories, stories, and characters have less meaning.
Historical context deals with the details that surround an occurrence. In more
technical terms, historical context refers to the social, religious, economic, and
political conditions that existed during a certain time and place. Basically, it's all
the details of the time and place in which a situation occurs, and those details are
what enable us to interpret and analyze works or events of the past, or even the
future, rather than merely judge them by contemporary standards.

Put another way, context is what gives meaning to the details. It's important,
however, that you don't confuse context with cause. Cause is the action that creates
an outcome; context is the environment in which that action and outcome occur.