MRR in READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

NAME: John Reige Malto Bendijo

SECTION: A23
Assignment. Louis Gottschalk
Metacognitive Reading Report no.1

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. Three (3) things that I significantly learned from the readings

a. The first thing that I significantly learned from this reading is that knowing a
certain history is a very long process. A historian can’t immediately conclude
that a certain topic or article that connects to the past is true and become a
history. Historians should first use some different guidelines or methods in
order to write an accurate and precise histories in the form of accounts of the
past.
b. The second thing that I significantly learned in this reading is that as what I’ve
mentioned earlier there are different guidelines or methods in order to test the
credibility of a certain story in order to become a history and one of it is the
source criticism in which through this method it test how accurate a certain
story is depending on where this story came from.
c. The third thing that I significantly learned in this reading is that even if the
historians already know where a certain story came from, before making it as a
recorded history, historian should do a external criticism in order to test the
authenticity and provenance of a story.
2. Three (3) things that are still unclear to me
a
a. The first thing that is still unclear to me is the statistical inference.
b. The second thing that is still unclear to me is the arguments from analogy.
 c. The last topic that is till unclear to me is the argument to best explanation
because the conditions of this arguments is confusing me a little.
3. I used to think that…

Before reading the lesson, I thought that historians have an easy job in
knowing a history. I thought that they will just gather some different sources
and examine a little and it will become a history. But now I’ve realized that
gathering some information about history is a very long process, there are a lot
of historical methods that needs to be done in order to have an authentic and
reliable history.

4. Three (3) questions that I want to ask about the readings

a. How can a historian prove that the indirect witness evidence is reliable, and it
hasn’t just made by the witness?
b. What is the most efficient historical method in order to test the authenticity of
a certain story in order to become a history?
c. How can we assure that the stories that has been passed from one generation
to another through oral tradition is still authentic and reliable?