ASSIGNMENT IN THE

LIFE AND WORKS OF

JOSE RIZAL (LIFE,
WORKS AND WRITINGS
OF JOSE RIZAL AT 0-8
YEARS OLD)

SUBMITTED BY:
STEFFI ANNE D. CLARO

SUBMITTED TO:
PROF. ERNIE G. TOLENTINO
LIFE OF JOSE RIZAL AT 0-
8 YEARS OLD
Jose Rizal was born on the
moonlit night of Wednesday,
June 19, 1861 in the lakeshore
town of Calamba, Laguna,
Philippines.
Jose Rizal was baptized in the
Catholic church of his town on
June 22, aged three days old,
by the parish priest, Father
Rufino Collantes, who was a
Batangueno.
Jose Rizal was the seventh of
the eleven children of
Francisco Mercado Rizal and
Teodora Alonso Realonda.
Jose Rizal have ten siblings:
Saturnina, Paciano, Narcisa,
Olimpia, Lucia, Maria,
Concepcion, Josefa, Trinidad,
and Soledad.
The first memory of Rizal, in
his infancy, was his happy
days in the family garden
when he was three years old.
WORKS OF JOSE RIZAL WRITINGS OF JOSE RIZAL
AT 0-8 YEARS OLD AT 0-8 YEARS OLD
As a little boy, Rizal used to At the age of eight, Rizal
play games with his sisters. wrote his first poem in the
Although he had boyish native language entitled “Sa
quarrels with them, he Aking Mga Kababata.” This
respected them. poem reveals Rizal’s earliest
nationalist movement. In
poetic verses, he proudly
proclaimed that a people who
truly love their native
language will surely strive for
liberty like “the bird which
soars to free space above” and
that Tagalog is the equal of
Latin, English, Spanish, and
any other language.
At the age of three, Rizal Also, at the age of eight, Rizal
began to take part in the wrote his first dramatic work
family prayers. His mother, which was a Tagalog comedy.
who was a devout Catholic, It is said that it was staged in a
taught him the Catholic Calamba festival and was
prayers. When he was five delightfully applauded by the
years old, he was able to read audience.
haltingly the Spanish family
bible.
Rizal love to go to church, to
pray, to take part in novenas,
and to join the religious
processions.
At the age of five, he began to
make sketches with his pencil
and to mould in clay and wax
objects which attracted his
fancy.
It is said that one day, when
Jose was a mere boy in
Calamba, a religious banner
which was always used during
the fiesta was spoiled. Upon
the request of the town mayor,
he painted in oil colors a new
banner that delighted the town
folks because it was better
than the original one.
 Another childhood memory of
Rizal was the daily Angelus
prayer. By nightfall, Rizal
related, his mother gathered
all the children at the house to
pray the Angelus.
Another memory of his
infancy was the nocturnal
walk in the town, especially
when there was a moon.
In 1867, the Spanish coat of
arms painting was done during
a fiesta of San Rafael in
Calamba. The material that
the painting used was
watercolor.
With his dexterous hands, he
learned various tricks, such as
making a coin appear or
disappear in his fingers and
making a handkerchief vanish
in thin air. He entertained his
town folks with magic-lantern
exhibitions.

The feedback that I have learned from this assignment is that the life, works, and writings of Dr.
Jose Rizal in his early childhood days (0-8 years old) is important for a couple of reasons. Jose
Rizal in his early days is already being known as an intelligent person in the Philippines because
of his brilliance in writing literatures and his faith to God. Rizal was learned to become a religious
person because her mother was a devout Catholic. Rizal’s mother taught Jose to always remember
the prayers and novenas that their religion has taught. Aside from being religious to God, Rizal
also wrote a poem about the children. The poem about children taught a lot of lessons to learn.
Rizal proudly proclaimed in a poem that a people who truly love their native language will surely
strive for liberty like “the bird which soars to free space above” and that Tagalog is the equal of
Latin, English, Spanish, and any other language. Another reason for the importance of the life,
works, and writings of Jose Rizal in his early childhood days is that in Rizal’s early age, he already
contributed a lot to his own country like the Spanish coat of arms painting that was done in
Calamba, making sketches with his pencil, and even being a magician in his own good.