PRODUCED CIGARETTES BEFORE THE WAR, CALLE FUMADERO WAS NAMED NOT FOR TABACCO SMOKERS BUT FOR MANY OPIUM DENS THAT USED TO OPERATE. 1879 • JOSE RIZAL BOUGHT “HASHISH” FROM MANILA, • IN A LETTER TO HIS FRIEND DR. A.B MEYER, AN ANTHROPOLOGIST, “ I USED HASHISH, BUT ONLY FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES” • RIZAL SAID THAT PRE-HISPANIC FILIPINO DID NOT HAVE HASHISH BUT GOT THEIR TRIP INSTEAD FROM ARAK, COCONUT WINE, AND BUYO BETEL NUTS
• BETEL NUT CHEWING IS AN OLD PRACTICE IN THE
PHILIPPINES •WHAT DR. JOSE RIZAL READ?
• RIZAL OWNED A VALUABLE COLLECTION
OVER 2,000 BOOKS • RIZAL READ A LOT OF FRENCH LITERATURE AUTHORS AND GENRE
• HORORE DE BALZAC (NOVEL/ REALISM)
• ALEXANDER DUMAS PERE (ROMANTICISM/ HISTORICAL FICTION) • PIERRE JEAN DE BERENGER (SONG WRITER/ POET) -THE MOST PUPOLAR FRENCH SONG WRITER OFF ALL TIME • CHARLES LOUIS DE SECONDAT ( JUDGE, A MAN OF LETTER AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER) • EMILE ZOLA (FRENCH NOVALIST, JOURNBALIST, AND BEST KNOWN PRACTITIONER OF THE LITERARY SCHOOL OF NATURALISM) ACTIVITY: SCRAMBBLE LETTER INTO WORDS (CHUBBY BUNNY) • 1. ELTBE TSUN • 2. KROESM’S TRESET • 3. LLEAC MUAERFO • 4. OSEJ IRAZL • 5. INODBNO • 6. RFCHNE TLEIRURAET • 7. KOSOB • 8. NESPHIPILPI ANSWER:
• BETEL NUTS • SMOKERS STREET • CALLE FUMADERO • JOSE RIZAL • BINONDO • FRENCH LITERATURE • BOOKS • PHILIPPINES