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INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK #8
RIZAL AS A PROFESSIONAL

Objectives:

1. Name the professions Rizal practiced in the country.

2. Discuss the contribution of Rizal’s profession.

Trivia:

Rizal won in a lottery with the winning number 9736 with the amount of P2,600.00. He
sent some to his parents and he used some in acquiring lands in Talisay and cleared it
to make it valuable through the help of his students. More so, Joselito Dalman Aseniero,
one of his students, became the first governor of the Province of the Zamboanga in
1925.

Discussion:

Notes: RIZAL AS A PROFESSIONAL

I shall always be at the service of
1st subtopic. Reason why Rizal was my country and what my fellow
arrested countrymen think I can do I shall do.
- Rizal’s Letter to Mariano Ponce, London, October
Borneo settlement= opposed 12, 1888

La Liga Filipina= advocate reforms A. REASON OF HIS ARREST

Motto
"Unus Instrat Omnium (One like All)"
After 3 days of its foundation, Rizal
was accused of having brought
with him from HK leaflets
Pobres Frailes (Poor Friars)
Article written
agalist the rich Dominican friars
Violate vow of poverty = Vows not
to possess any property, money
and live luxuriosly
Vow of chastity = no sexual
relationship with opposite sex
Vow of obedience = obey
instructions from their superior
Rizal went home to the
Philippines for the second time on
June 26, 1892. He immediately went
to Malacañang Palace to look for the
Governor-General to ask for pardon
for his family and the possible
agreement for the Borneo
settlement.
B. RIZAL AS A PROFESSIONAL
Rizal was gifted with many
talents and skills which were
polished by time. His giftedness was
experienced by the people of
Dapitan during his four years (1892-
1896) confinement in this place.
1. As a Medical doctor
2. As a Farmer/Agriculturist

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Arrested and Exiled in Fort Santiago
(incommunicado).
> excluded from participating in the
sacraments of Christian church
> not allowed to perform any
doctrine
July 14, 1892 = Dapitan- deportation
without due trial
Handed with Capitan Ricardo
Carnicero (M.governor)
Stay in parish convent but abide
1. Retract from his religion (Protestant)
2. Perform church rights
3. Be a man of religion
Studied malayan language; freedom
but except leaving the place
Malaria= casitas de salud (small
houses) 2 patients.
Planned layouts, water and lightning
system
Invented wooden machine (bricks)
Hemp stripping machine (abaca)
Net weaving
Partnered Ramon Carreon (hemp
and copra trade, lime industr, fishing)
Selected 16 boys (internos) no
tuition fees
He made them construct dam as a
water depository during dry
seasons and also earn living.
Fieldtrip= places in Dapitan
Former teacher= Francisco de
Paula Sanchez = they
reconstructed the town plaza and
made a big relief map of
Mindanao (infront of the church)
Collected numerous species
bird, insects, snakes, shells and
plants
Identification: Anthropologicl and
ethnographical museum of
Dresden
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3. As a Linguist
4. As an Engineer
5. As an Inventor
6. As a Businessman
7. As a Teacher
8. As a Geographer
9. As a Scientist
10. As an Artist
C. RIZAL’S FINITUDENESS
July 31,1896- Rizal left Dapitan
September 2, 1892- the Katipunan
headed by Andres Bonifacio
attacked San Juan
October 3-6, 1896- he was shipped
backed to Manila boarded with the
warship full of soldiers and officers
November 3, 1896- arrived in Manila
and he was transferred to For
Santiago
In his Datos Para Mi Defensa
(Data for my Defense) he responded
to the following charges:
Regarding rebellion_, he had the
following claims:
1. He advised Pio Valenzuela how
absurd the movement (Katipunan)
was, and he had always been
opposed to rebellion.
2. He was offered help, but he refused
because if he really did something
against anybody or anything else, he
had to prove his innocence.
3. He could not serve as a leader for he
was not consulted at all and if they
made use of his name, it was used to
do what they please.
4. He had no correspondence with
them (Katipunan) and if so then the
letter would fall into the hands of the
government.
With regards
institution of La Liga, he
defended that:
1. He wrote the statutes of the
organization for unity, mutual
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Draco rizali= small lizard / flying dragon protection, development of

Apogania rizali= rare beetle
Rhacophorous rizali= frog
Sphatolmes rizali= fungus beetle
> poem about the ordinariness of life in
Dapitan
> love poem to Josephine
> Estudios Sobre la Lengua Tagala
(studies on the Tagalog language)
Long debate about religious views with
Fr. Pablo Pastells
Consultation of planned revolt against
Spaniards= Dr. Pio Valenzuela
M.Governor that approved the
decision = camilo de polavieja
December 30, 1896- shot in the morning
at bagumbayan, known now as
LUNETA
wrote: Mi Ultimos Adios (My last
farewell) hidden in lamparilla (lamp or
other contest, an alcohol cooking
stove)
While marching:
1. describe how beautiful the day
Request for: to be shot facing the firing
squad but was denied.
shouted: consummatum est (it is
finished) then maneuvered right =
never been a traitor to mother Spain
and to its colony, the Philippines
education, defense against violence
and injustices, agriculture and
commerce and implementation of
reforms.
2. He clarified what he meant on the
phrase to have liberties (to be free)
and to have independence (to be
separated).
3. c. He did not revive or
reorganized it and whoever does he
does not know who and what
changes they had made.
4. He did not convoke the members
who met at the house of Mr.
Ongjungco.
With regards to
___masonry______, he had the
following claims:
1. He did not introduce Masonry in the
Philippines.
2. He gave up writing and taking part of
La Solidaridad and Masonry.
3. He founded associations in which its
common objectives were to moralize
the Filipinos and the political side
was never under his direction.
4. He admitted that he wrote Himno a
Talisay (Hymn to Talisay) where in
the verse that they will know how to
protect their families, but he referred
it to the numerous incursions of the
Moros who went to Dapitan.

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