Name: __________________________________ Date:________________________________

Section:_________________________________ Instructor:___________________________

Activity 1.1

A. Fill in the blanks.

In Calamba, Laguna, 19 June 1861 1.___________________the seventh child of Francisco

Mercado Rizal and 2.__________________, was born in Calamba, Laguna 22 June 1861. He was
baptized JOSE RIZAL MERCADO at the Catholic of Calamba by the parish priest Rev. Rufino Collantes
with Rev. Pedro Casañas as the sponsor. 28 September 1862 the parochial church of 3.____________and
the canonical books, including the book in which Rizal’s baptismal records were entered, were
burned.1864 Barely three years old, Rizal learned the alphabet from his 4.___________1865 when he was
four years old, his sister Conception, the eight child in the Rizal family, died at the age of three. It was on
this occasion that Rizal remembered having shed real tears for the first time.1865 – 5.___________ during
this time his mother taught him how to read and write. His father hired a classmate by the name of
6.______________ who, for five months until his (Monroy) death, taught Rizal the rudiments of Latin. At
about this time two of his mother’s cousin frequented Calamba. Uncle 7.______________seeing Rizal
frail in body, concerned himself with the physical development of his young 8.__________ and taught the
latter love for the open air and developed in him a great admiration for the beauty of nature, while
9.______________, a scholar, instilled into the mind of the boy love for education. He advised Rizal:
"10.____________ and perform every task very 11.____________ learn to be swift as well as thorough;
be independent in thinking and make visual pictures of everything."6 June 1868 With his father, Rizal
made a pilgrimage to 12.___________ to fulfill the vow made by his mother to take the child to the Shrine
of the Virgin of Antipolo should she and her child survive the ordeal of delivery which nearly caused his
mother’s life. From there they proceeded to Manila and visited his sister Saturnina who was at the time
studying in the 13._______________College in Sta. Ana.1869At the age of 14.__________Rizal wrote
his first poem entitled "Sa Aking Mga Kabata." The poem was written in tagalog and had for its theme
"15.___________ of One’s Language."

B. Identification.
Direction: Read carefully and write the correct answer.

_________________________1. Who is the most famous lawyers of Manila that defend Dona Teodora?
_________________________2. Who is the Gobernadorcillo help arrest Dona Teodora?
_________________________3. Rizal was boarded in Intramuros, who owned by?
_________________________4. Who is Rizal’s classmate who also loved painting, became apprentices
of the old painter?
_________________________5. When Rizal left Calamba for Biñan accompanied by?