RIZAL LAW

ATBP: Ang Medyo

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Objectives:
• Explain the Rizal law and its Importance
• Analyze the major issues and concerns during the
deliberation of the proposed law.
• Compare and contrast the old legislative process to the
present congress legislation.
• Examine how the literary readings and analysis effect the
development and promotion of nationalism, patriotism, and
volunteerism among the citizenry.
• Evaluate the major issues and concerns on literary pieces as
mode of transferring values, cultures, and lessons of history.
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Synchronous Class:
PART 1
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Ano ulit
ang
Rizal
Law?
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• Filed on April 3 1956 (Committee of Education, a former
committee in legislation) under the name senate bill 438
• Senator Claro M. Recto was the main proponent of the
Rizal Bill (sponsored by Jose P. Laurel). The Rizal Law,
also known as RA 1425, mandates the study of Rizal's life
and works, as shown in Section 1.
• Disseminate Rizal’s ideas by reading his two famous
novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.

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Congress passed the Rizal
Bill (Senate Bill 438) and
was signed into Rizal Law
(Republic Act 1425) by
President Ramon
Magsaysay on June 12, 1956.

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Notable Persons Who Tried to Block its Approval
Sen. Decoroso Rosales – brother of
Archbishop (Cardinal) Rosales

Francisco “Soc” Rodrigo – President of

Catholic Action of the Philippines

Sen. Mariano Cuenco – brother of

Archbishop Cuenco
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Notable Persons Who Tried to Block its Approval
Jesus Paredes – radio commentator

Fr. Jesus Cavana – member of the Paulist

Order who wrote a pastoral letter

The Friars
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Reasons of the Person
Who Tried to Block the
Approval of the Bill
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The Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are very
damaging to the clerics.

The novels were written when Dr. Jose Rizal, estranged

from Catholic faith and religion and contradict many of the
Christian beliefs.

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To compel Catholic students to read a book which contains
passages contradicting their faith constitutes a violation of a
Philippine constitutional provision (Art. 3, Sec. 1, Par. 7).

The novels do contain teachings contrary to Catholic faith and

so, the Church is opposed to the proposed compulsory reading
in their entirety of such books in any school in the Philippines
where Catholic students may be affected.

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Reasons of the Person
Who Fight for the
Approval of the Bill
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There is a need for a rededication to the ideals of
freedom and nationalism for which our heroes lived and
died.

There is a need to remember with special fondness and

devotion the lives and works of our heroes who shaped
the national character.

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The life, works and writings of Dr.Jose Rizal
particularly, his novels Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo are constant and inspiring source of
patriotism with which the minds of the youth,
especially during their formative and decisive years
in school, should besuffused.
There is a need to develop moral character,
personal discipline, civic conscience and to teach
the duties of citizenship.

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Salient Points of the Rizal Law
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.
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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.

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Teaching of Rizal Course in College
Rizal as a course has been taught in College generally
as a supplementary course by teachers of different
specializations.

In most cases, the focus of the course is on Rizal's

biography and trivial matters, compounded by
the varying interpretations of the spirit and the
letter of Rizal law through the years.

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Synchronous Class:
PART 2

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JOSE
RIZAL AND
THE
INVENTIO
N OF
NATIONAL
LITERATU
RE
by Resil B.
Mojares

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A teacher and scholar, essayist and
fictionist, and cultural and literary
historian, Resil Mojares is
acknowledged as a leading figure in
the promotion of regional literature
and history. As founding director of the
Cebuano Studies Center—an important
research institution which placed Cebu
in the research and documentation map
—he pioneered Cebuano and national
identity formation. 

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Few Points about “The Council of the Gods”
◈ El consejo de los dioses (The Council of the Gods)
◈ Narrates council of gods in Mt. Olympus to
determine who, among Homer, Virgil, and
Cervantes.
◈ Cervantes is judged as the winner.

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Asynchronous
Class:
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Answer the following questions on 01 Discussion
Forum
◈ If you are one of the senators during the debate over
the bill, will you oppose or support the bill? Why or
why not?
◈ Do you think Jose Rizal deserve this? Why or why
not?
◈ How do you think Jose Rizal would react (if he's still
alive today) over the RA 1425?
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Deadline:
◈ October 4, 2021

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Take Home Quiz
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01 QUIZ 1A - ARG
◈ Deadline: October 3, 2021

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