MINGULLO, JESSON ANDRO A.

BSCRIM – 1 (BLOCK 1-L)

READING IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY
GE128 – GEN ED 5
(WSAT - 2:30 - 4:00PM)

MODULE 1
LESSON 1: Meanings and Relevance of History

ACTIVITY 1:
A. What does the author mean or imply by “Ang kasaysayan ay salaysay… na may saysay
sa sariling lipunan at kultura”?

Answer:
The author implies that our history is a story on it’s own from the past events and it plays an important
role to our culture and to our society. The past events became history because it helped shaped what
we have or what we see today in our culture, society and even us people. It shows how our society and
culture progress from the past to present and we can say that if we compare the past and present,
there’s really a big difference.

B. The statement. “Ito (referring to kasaysayan) ay iniuulat gamit ang mga konsepto at kategorya ng
sariling kultura, implies who should write a people’s history. What issues would emerge from (1) a
history of people written and interpreted by an “outsider” (a foreign historian); and, (2) a history of
people analyzed and presented by an “insider” (a local
historian)?

B.1 History written by an outsider

Answer:
History that is written by an outsider may not be accurate, story written by an outsider are not always
true because some parts may be not what it actually is and some information may be added. They base
on the past story but they deliver it differently, they only know some part of it but not the rest of it. Like
the differences in the dialects, it’s difficult to understand them specially for an outsider that’s why the
history they write can never be always accurate, that’s also why it’s better to be in their place to adopt
their culture so that the experiences that can be gained from it make great contributions to learn the
culture and its origin.

B.2 History written by an insider

Answer:
An insider history writer has the inside knowledge that an outsiders doesn’t have. They have different
perspective. Insiders tends to do research and gain information by themselves, examples are the
historians and archeologists. They can work together to look for sources and examine the materials they
had find. They also have the knowledge and information that the outsiders can’t understand because
they do actual research to seek for their needed information so that they can prove the “history” they
want to prove. From culture, beliefs, religion, etc. they can provide written information about it using
solid proof evidence. Unlike the outsiders, the story of the insiders are from experience-based source
and based on truth as their experience and gained knowledge is their primary source to write a story.

ACTIVITY 2: FACT OR OPINION

1. O

2. F

3. F

4. F

5. O

LESSON 2: Historical Sources

ACTIVITY 3:

1. TRUE 6. FALSE

2. FALSE 7. FALSE

3. TRUE 8. TRUE

4. FALSE 9. FALSE

5. FALSE 10. FALSE

ACTIVITY 4:
EXTERNAL CRITICISM
is the practice of verifying the
authenticity of evidence by
examining its physical
characteristics; consistency
with the historical
characteristic of the time
when it was produced; and
the materials used for the
.evidence
PRIMARY RESOURCES
These are the sources •
produced at the same time as
the event, period, or subject
being studied. These are the
eyewitness accounts and their
memoirs
INTERNAL CRITICISM
is the examination of the
These are used to truthfulness of the
evidence. It looks at the
thoroughly scrutinize content of the source and
the historical sources examines the circumstance
of its production. Internal
to avoid deception. criticism looks at the
truthfulness and factuality
of the evidence by looking
at the author of the source.
SECONDARY RESOURCES
Historian's tools of •These are the sources
which were produced by an
understanding author who used primary
and interpreting sources to produce the
material. These are
the past historical sources which.
studied a certain historical
subject.
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