PERSONAL GROWTH

MODEL
“A POEM THAT HAS NO TITLE”
WRITTEN BY: JOSE RIZAL

To my Creator I sing
Who did soothe me in my great loss;
To the Merciful and Kind
Who in my troubles gave me repose.

Thou with that pow’r of thine

Said: Live! And with life myself I found;
And shelter gave me thou
And a soul impelled to the good
Like a compass whose point to the North is bound.

Thou did make me descend

From honorable home and respectable stock,
And a homeland thou gavest me
Without limit, fair and rich
Though fortune and prudence it does lack.
 POET
JOSE RIZAL
 Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist
and polymath during the tail of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
 He is considered to be the national hero of the Philippines.
 Born in the town of Calamba, Laguna on 19 th June 1861.
 He began his early education at home and continued in Binan, Laguna. He
entered a Jesuit Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1872 and obtained a bachelor
of art’s degree with highest honors. He studied at the University of Santo
Tomas, and in 1882, he left for Spain to enter the Central University of
Madrid, where he completed his medical and humanistic studies.
 Jose Rizal wrote the poem in 1869, at the age of eight. The poem was widely
taught in Philippine schools to point out Rizal’s preciousness and early
development of his nationalistic ideals.
 INTERPRETATION

First Stanza
• Rizal opens the poem in thanksgiving. The entire poem is generally about God and is speaking in
the second person to God.

Second Stanza
• Rizal goes back in the time to the days before he was born. With artistic art reference to God’s
power ton create everything out of nothing and to speak all beings into existence.

Third Stanza
• Rizal says that God allowed him to be born into an honorable with a respected family and into a
country that had no limit. He closes the verse with the only line in the poem that expresses
sadness.
 ACTIVITY 1
Describe what you see in the picture. Based from the picture, how does it affect
the student’s personal growth?
 ACTIVITY 2

For this activity, you will be having an impromptu speech. I will give you the topics and you’ll be
given 5 minutes to express your opinion or personal experiences.

• How did personal Growth Model is affected/changed?

• Did personal Growth Model had a great impact to you while improving yourself?
• What is personal Growth Model in your opinion?
 ACTIVITY 3

For the third activity, make an extemporaneous essay. The topic should be about Personal Growth Model.
 ACTIVITY 4
Form a group consisting of 5 members. Give each letter a word that will represent Personal Growth Model.
Example:
G-Good
I-Interest
R-Role
L-Life

Answer these:
P- G- M-
E- R- O-
R- O- D-
S- W- E-
O- T- L-
N- H-
A-
L-
 EVALUATION

Going back to the discussion about the poem, here are some
questions based on the topic:

1. Does personal experience important in making a poem? Why?

2. How would you apply personal growth model in the poem of Rizal?
3. If you were to write your own poem, how will you relate it to yourself?
4. How will you deliver a message through a poem that you will make?
5. What was in the poem where in you can say that personal Growth took
place?
 ASSIGNMENT

Make an essay giving your own opinion or

personal experiences related to the topic:

“As a grade 12 student, how does your environment

affect your personal growth?”
 THANK YOU!
MEMBERS:
Dave Vian Grageda
Aivie Paloyo
Ma. Christina Herras
Irish Mae Legaspi
Arven Laad