Munda, Francis Dave A.

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MTC1 15/10/21
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LEARNING ACTIVITY NO. 1.2

Course Readings in Philippine History (NGEC2)

Topic Historical Sources

1. Distinguish what a historical source and what is not.

2. Differentiate primary and secondary historical sources.
Learning Outcome(s) 3. Appreciate inventory of historical sources within the
landscape
of home and local community.

Instructor Mr. Arnold P. Santos, LPT.

LESSON MAP

Historical Sources
I.

Classification of Relevance to
Meaning & Historiographic
Historical Sources:
Importance to Accounts/Narratives
Primary, Tertiary &
Historical Research Writing of
Secondary
Interpretation

Introduction

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 This Module 1.2 will give you an opportunity to explore on “Historical Sources.” With
the past as history’s main subject matter, the historian’s most important research tools are
historical sources. As you attempt to embark on the nature and rigors of doing historical
research, you would find yourself indulged in a diligent task of locating necessary historical
materials (artifacts) and select from among those you might find most relevant and meaningful
ones for a historical subject matter which you are trying to make an investigation or inquiry of.

History, like other academic discipline, has come a long way as we have discussed in
our first lesson, but still has a lot of remaining tasks to do. It does not claim to render absolute
and exact judgment because as long as questions are continuously asked, and as long as time
and issues unfold, the study of history can never be complete until the truth is uncovered. The
task of a historian or a history student like you who may want to engage in a historical research
is to organize the past that is being recreated so that it can offer significant lessons for your
local community, society and to our nation’s progressing civilization as a whole.

It is the historian’s job or to a historical researcher like you to seek for the meaning of
recovering the past to let the people see the continuing relevance of provenance, memory,
remembering and historical understanding for both the present and the future.

With the foregoing assertions, you will dwell on this lesson that tackles on historical
sources for you to be cognizant on the vital significance of sources in the writing of reliable
historical accounts/interpretations using “sources” as basis in the writing of “factual” historical
narratives which will somehow make your paper appear with integrity.

An inventory of primary and secondary resources is a performance task given for you to
make yourself become aware of your local community history. Such task will also awaken your
personal sense of historical consciousness thru the writing of autobiographic narratives using
certain primary sources that you may find available within the landscape of your home and
utilize them as your primary materials which will facilitate in the recollection of your past.

Readings:

Primary Sources for Historical Research

https://library.uncw.edu/guides/finding_primary_sources

What Are Historical Sources

https://www.historyonthenet.com/what-are-historical-sources

Historical Sources
Candelaria, JP. & Alporha, VC. (2018). Readings in Philippine history. (pp. 4-7). QC. Manila.

Video links:

Primary & Secondary Sources in History Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOXfArLq6uY

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Historical Source Evaluation Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_WyxYuvvis

II. Historical Sources & Its Classification

What are Historical Sources based on the insights you learned from the videorecorded lectures
and e-literatures? Write on a succinct description of such using the provided space.

Based on the video I watched, the historical sources have information that is on a
specific topic in history. Historical sources are important because through them you can
determine whether what you want to know about history is right or wrong. Historical
sources contain a variety of evidence regarding the specific topic you want to know about
history. Sources are divided into two different types: primary sources and secondary
sources. It contains legitimate information about a specific topic. When looking for
historical sources, it is best to determine whether they are primary or secondary, because
not all sources are true and correct.

In two paragraphs, expound the importance of historical sources in the writing of authentic and
reliable historical narratives/accounts using the image above as your guide for the framing of
your conceptual illustration.

Historical sources are important in preserving our history because they prove that
history is true, especially the sources that are in the letters, because they are easier to keep for
a long time compared to tools and artifacts. If it is not taken care of properly, it can be
damaged and eventually lose the evidence of its history. As in the picture above, you can see
the broken history sources. It may not be taken care of properly, so the history of these uses
suddenly disappears.

It is easier to store and preserve historical sources in letters, documents, and letters
because they can be preserved by printing or in a frame because they are only on paper. on just
one piece of paper. It contains the entire history of an event compared to the items and artifacts
that still need to be analyzed to see if the said item really has a history and makes it even more
difficult to preserve. Historical sources are really important because without them it can only be
seen as historical fiction because there is no evidence.

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Classification of Historical Sources

What are Primary What are Secondary

Sources? Sources?

Primary sources are the documents
or information produced during the
event confirming the specific topic. This
information is more difficult to find
compared to secondary sources because
it is more legit information about the
person who is happening at the event.
Secondary sources are the evidence
or information produced after the event
and by people who were not at the
event. Secondary sources have poorer
evidence regarding the topic and may
not be reason enough for people to
believe.

 Within the landscape of your own home and local community, conduct
your personal inventory of the available primary and secondary sources.
Take a picture of them and crop the captured images of those you found
and paste them within the given compartments below.

Primary sources

0
Secondary
sources

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Writing Autobiographic Sketch

 Write your four-paragraph autobiographic sketch using certain primary

source/s (e.g. pictures, old stuff, shoes, etc.) which could help you recall
your past thus taking yourself to a memorable recollection of the
significant events in your life.

Our own first house

Title

I still remember when we first moved to our own house here in Las Piñas. We
were happy because it was the first time my parents built a medium-sized house at the
end of Saint Joseph Street. When we first moved into our new home, everything was
new to us in terms of sight and feeling. It is concrete and full of plants. For others, it
can be called a forest because of the excessive number of plants and grass-growing
trees, and in the middle of them is a medium-sized house, but for us it is a mansion
because of its extent.

Due to the presence of many plants and trees around our house, there are often
many mosquitoes here every night. Inside our new house, it is always clean because my
father doesn't want to get dirty inside the house. Every night my parents and siblings

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sleep together in the same room, apart from me, because I want to be alone in my own
room because I'm already growing up.

The first time my father came down from a ship to our new house because he
was a seafarer, he decided to immediately remove the plants and trees around our new
house and made it concrete so that we could use the leftover space for other things. So
my dad built a basketball court in our yard and took the other space and turned it into a
garage. Raised the fence for our safety too. We are happy to see the changes in our new
home and want to make it even more beautiful.

And on the second disembarkation from my father's ship, we decided to further

beautify our first house through a full renovation. We were together in one bedroom
because our whole house was being renovated and the workers were beautifying. The
former two bedrooms became four, and our house grew bigger with new paint. It also
took more than a year before it was finished, and when it was over, we were very happy
because the house was small and in the middle of the tall trees, but now it is big and
beautiful because it is finished and we are ready to buy another house.

Rubrics for Grading

INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL SOURCES

a. Quality of Images 5 points
b. Quantity of Images 5 points
c. Accuracy of Classification 5 points
d. Creativity 5 points
Total 20 points

AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCH
e. Clarity of Narratives 5 points
f. Creativity & Cleanliness 5 points
g. Use of Primary Sources 20 points
h. Grammar & Spelling 5 points
Total 35 points

Accomplished by:

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____Francis Dave A. Munda _
signature over printed name

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