MEANING AND

HISTORY SYNOPSIS
GROUP 3
DELOS REYES, NHIVRAZZIR
GARCIA, JEHU
PEŇALOSA, CRISTINE
SUMAGAYSAY, NIŇA
MAIN IDEA
• “History is making people see their past,
thereby giving them a sense of being
Filipinos.”
MAIN IDEA
•KASAYSAYAN
•SALAYSAY
•SAYSAY
SUPPORTING IDEA
To give such certain support of the main idea in the other slide…
• History is not just a narrative of what happened in the past, it
must have meaning. And if we find meaning in history, then it
will gain the power to change our lives.
• Without memory we cannot form relationships, we cannot
know who we are, and we cannot identify our identities.
SUPPORTING IDEA
• History is not a closed book, we should be
open in searching for more information and
data.
• History is open-ended or able to change.
CONCLUSION
•Think critically when reading the history
for us not to repeat the things that is
already done in a wrong way in the past
that should not be repeated again.
AUTHOR’S
BACKGROUND
• Ambeth Raymundo Ocampo (born August 13, 1961) is a Filipino
historian best known for his writings about Philippines' national
hero José Rizal and for Looking Back, his bi-weekly editorial page
column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He served as the Chairman of
the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (2002-
2011) and concurrently Chairman of the National Commission
for Culture and the Arts in (2005-2007).
AUTHOR’S
BACKGROUND
• He abandoned his London postgraduate studies in
1993, when he entered the Benedictine Abbey
of Our Lady of Montserrat, Manila taking the
monastic name Dom. Ignacio Maria, OSB. He
subsequently left the monkhood in 1997.
CONTINUATION
• Ocampo was born on August 13, 1961 in Manila to
Lamberto Un Ocampo, a civil engineer, and Belen
Raymundo, a jeweler.
• He received his primary and secondary education at
the Ateneo de Manila University. He subsequently
attained his undergraduate and mastered degrees in
Philippine Studies from the De La Salle University in
1989 and 1991.
CONTINUATION
• He took graduate courses in the University of
the Philippines Diliman and later read for a
doctorate in Southeast Asian History at
the University of London School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).