ACTIVITY 1:

Direction: Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your journal/
notebook.

1. Draw a table which compares Rizal’s leadership qualities to those of present

Filipino leaders.

RIZAL’S LEADERSHIP PRESENT FILIPINO LEADERS

 He may not be a warrior in the  Person oriented

times of Spanish colonization, but
he showed his love for our country,  Competent (knowledgeable)
in a non-violent approach.
 Servant leader
 He protested against the Spanish
crown, in the pursuit of equality  Principled, upright, god fearing
and peace.
 Firm (courage, conviction)
 He inspired the people, to live up to
themselves, and give them a sense  Firm (control, enforcement)
of self-respect, thus, giving them
hope for a brighter future

2. Sketch out scenarios which depict Rizal as a student leader at UST and as a
Filipino propagandist in Spain. Put this in your portfolio.
 3. Was Rizal an ideal hero- leader? Explain your answer.

 There are many qualities that can describe every hero in the world. Some
qualities that would describe Jose Rizal are being open-minded,
intelligent, and hardworking. Jose really wanted to have freedom in the
Philippines from Spain, so that the Filipinos did not have to be
controlled by another country. He did not care about himself. He cared
more about helping his country. He really wanted his country to be
proud of him. Jose also was very smart. He knew how to work many
jobs and had mastered 23 languages. He also helped other people who
needed help. Jose was hardworking in all that he tried to accomplish. He
did many good deeds and tried to accomplish his goals; he wanted to
free his country. 

ACTIVITY 2

Direction: Answer the following questions.

1. Do you think that seeking reforms from the colonial masters is the best way for
a country to gain independence?

 Since they did not read the letter seeking reforms was not the best way to
gain independence, I would only be possible if the Philippines would
become a province of Spain. But despite of that Filipino gain knowledge
about Rizal’s reforms

2. Did you consider Rizal as desperate and hopeless when he started advocating
reforms rather than supporting the revolution?

 No, he was just defending his belief and understanding about how
Philippines were involving, he was a fighter knowing he advocated his
reforms with using his pen and not supporting revolution with guns and
swords.

3. Draw an imaginary Filipino farming community in North Borneo. Place this in

your portfolio.

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 4. Make a creative sketch depicting Rizal as a reformist. Place this in your
portfolio.

ACTIVITY 3

Direction: Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your journal.

1. Why did the Spanish government order the arrest of Rizal?

 The Spanish government falsely blamed Rizal for the insurgence

and ordered his arrest. Following Rizal's return to Manila,
he was charged with rebellion and starting an illegal society. Witnesses
testified to his involvement with the rebels and he was convicted by a
military court.

2. Why were the friars angered by the contents of the Noli Me Tangnere?

  Rizal creates other memorable characters whose lives manifest the poisonous
effects of religious and colonial oppression. Capitan Tiago; the social climber
Doña Victorina de Espadaña and her toothless Spanish husband; the Guardia Civil
head and his harridan of a wife; the sorority of devout women; the disaffected
peasants forced to become outlaws: in sum, a microcosm of Philippine society. In
the afflictions that plague them, Rizal paints a harrowing picture of his beloved
but suffering country in a work that speaks eloquently not just to Filipinos but to
all who have endured or witnessed oppression.

3. How did Rizal’s exile in Dapitan end? Was he a victim of government plot?

 Rizal was arrested by the Spanish authorities on several grounds,

including founding a society, publishing books and newspapers that
spread rebellious and seditious ideas to the public, possessing a bundle
of handbills that violated the Spanish orders, criticizing the religion
spread by the Spaniards and spreading filibusterism in the Philippines.

4. Sketch a portrait of Rizal’s farewell to Dapitan. Place it in your portfolio.

 5. Draw an image which describes the controversy about Noli Me Tangere. Place
it in your portfolio.

ACTIVITY 4

Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your notebook/ journal.

1. Was execution the just punishment for Rizal’s alleged crimes? Why?

First. he was haste, second was a meticulous observance of legal formalities

that gave the impression of legality and justice. Third, in contrast to the
observance of legal forms, was disregard for the demands of real substantive
justice.

2. Do you think that the trial of Rizal was conducted fairly? Why?

Rizal is innocent, proofs that of letters showing Rizal’s connection with the
Filipino reform in Spain, the implications of Rizal in the Propaganda
Movement in Spain , and that and that of which contains his sentiments of the
deportations to be vital in the encouragement of the people to hate tyranny.
Rizal as the man to free the Philippines from Spanish oppression; one saying
that the Filipino people look up to him as their Savior; and two poems
containing verses and lines emphasizing of the liberty and the liberator of the
motherland and teaching the Dapitan schoolboys to sing that they know how to
fight for their rights.

3. Give your opinions about the misconduct/ mishandling of Rizal’s case which
should have resulted in a mistrial.

The easy way out, the Spanish colonial authorities must have presumed, was to
snuff out swiftly the leading voice of reform, and Rizal was the perfect fall guy. In
their zealousness to hold him accountable, they even imprisoned Paciano and
mercilessly tortured him to implicate his younger brother.  It was a veritable
 open-and-shut case: Rizal inspired the revolution through his writings and the
insurgents were his henchmen carrying out his call for freedom.

ACTIVITY 5

Direction: Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your journal.

1. How do you express your nationalistic sentiments?

By being proud of our country, appreciating the beliefs and its history also
making poems from our own language

2. How would you differentiate the expression of nationalism in poems then and
now?

By using our own language and putting deep meanings and thoughts about it
while today we uses poems with a lot of styles, rhythms and imagery.

3. Which of Rizal’s classic poems foster a sense of nationalism applicable to the

present?

TO MY FELLOW CHILDREN (Sa Aking Mga Kababata, 1869)

4. Which of Rizal’s classic poems foster a sense of nationalism?

TO MY FELLOW CHILDREN (Sa Aking Mga Kababata, 1869)

5. Choose one poem of Rizal and in a short bond paper, make an interpretative
illustration of it. Place it in your portfolio.
My Last Farewell"
translation by Encarnacion Alzona & Isidro Escare Abeto

Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed,

Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost,
With gladness I give you my life, sad and repressed;
And were it more brilliant, more fresh and at its best,
I would still give it to you for your welfare at most.

On the fields of battle, in the fury of fight,

Others give you their lives without pain or hesitancy,
The place does not matter: cypress, laurel, lily white;
Scaffold, open field, conflict or martyrdom's site,
It is the same if asked by the home and country.

I die as I see tints on the sky b'gin to show

And at last announce the day, after a gloomy night;
If you need a hue to dye your matutinal glow,
Pour my blood and at the right moment spread it so,
And gild it with a reflection of your nascent light

My dreams, when scarcely a lad adolescent,

My dreams when already a youth, full of vigor to attain,
Were to see you, Gem of the Sea of the Orient,
Your dark eyes dry, smooth brow held to a high plane,
Without frown, without wrinkles and of shame without stain.

My life's fancy, my ardent, passionate desire,

Hail! Cries out the soul to you, that will soon part from thee;
Hail! How sweet 'tis to fall that fullness you may acquire;
To die to give you life, 'neath your skies to expire,
And in thy mystic land to sleep through eternity!

If over my tomb some day, you would see blow,

A simple humble flow'r amidst thick grasses,
Bring it up to your lips and kiss my soul so,
And under the cold tomb, I may feel on my brow,
Warmth of your breath, a whiff of thy tenderness.

Let the moon with soft, gentle light me descry,

Let the dawn send forth its fleeting, brilliant light,
In murmurs grave allow the wind to sigh,
And should a bird descend on my cross and alight,
Let the bird intone a song of peace o'er my site.

Let the burning sun the raindrops vaporize

And with my clamor behind return pure to the sky;
Let a friend shed tears over my early demise;
And on quiet afternoons when one prays for me on high,
Pray too, oh, my Motherland, that in God may rest I.

Pray thee for all the hapless who have died,

For all those who unequalled torments have undergone;
For our poor mothers who in bitterness have cried;
For orphans, widows and captives to tortures were shied,
And pray too that you may see your own redemption.

And when the dark night wraps the cemet'ry

And only the dead to vigil there are left alone,
Don't disturb their repose, disturb not the mystery:
If thou hear the sounds of cithern or psaltery,
It is I, dear Country, who, a song t'you intone.

And when my grave by all is no more remembered,

With neither cross nor stone to mark its place,
Let it be plowed by man, with spade let it be scattered
And my ashes ere to nothingness are restored,
Let them turn to dust to cover thy earthly space.

Then it doesn't matter that you should forget me:

Your atmosphere, your skies, your vales I'll sweep;
Vibrant and clear note to your ears I shall be:
Aroma, light, hues, murmur, song, moanings deep,
Constantly repeating the essence of the faith I keep.

My idolized Country, for whom I most gravely pine,

Dear Philippines, to my last goodbye, oh, harken
There I leave all: my parents, loves of mine,
I'll go where there are no slaves, tyrants or hangmen
Where faith does not kill and where God alone does reign.

Farewell, parents, brothers, beloved by me,

Friends of my childhood, in the home distressed;
Give thanks that now I rest from the wearisome day;
Farewell, sweet stranger, my friend, who brightened my way;
Farewell to all I love; to die is to rest.

"Mi último adiós" (English; “My Last Farewell”) is a poem written by Filipino propagandist and writer Dr. José
Rizal before his execution by firing squad on December 30, 1896. The piece was one of the last notes he wrote
before his death. Another that he had written was found in his shoe, but because the text was illegible, its contents
remain a mystery.
Rizal did not ascribe a title to his poem. Mariano Ponce, his friend and fellow reformist, titled it "Mi último
pensamiento" ("My Last Thought") in the copies he distributed, but this did not catch on. Also, the "coconut oil"
containing the poem was not delivered to the Rizal's family until after the execution as it was required to light the cell

ACTIVITY 6:

Direction: answer the following questions. Write your answers in your journal.

1. Among Rizal’s novels, which do you like the most? Why?

Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) is not merely an attack on the Spanish

colonial regime. It is a charter nationalism. It calls on the Filipino to recover his
self-confidence, to appreciate his own worth, to return to the heritage of his
ancestors, to assert himself as the equal of the Spaniard. It is a romantic novel,
book of feeling, work of the heart, and contains freshness, color, humor,
lightness and wit despite that it depicts the sufferings of the Filipino people
under the Spanish rule.

2. What do you consider as the social cancers of our present time?

3. Without the novels of Rizal, do you think the Filipinos would experience a
national awakening? Why?

I think without Rizals novels we are still on the hands of the Spaniards; Rizal
became the eyes to see on what is happening on the Philippines. He let his self-
wrote novels to widen the views of every Filipino.

4. If you were to write a novel today, what would be its concept and title?

As strong as a bullet proof- I choose this title to symbolizes how filipinos

became strong to any obstacle and challenges we are facing right now

5. Identify two scenes in Noli or Fili and relate it to the present times.

Noli me tangere are more on the social caners of this present times, political
addresses are the problem and issue while El Fili is how people get revenge,
unfaithfulness and experiencing different kind of tragedies.