Lesson Title: Meaning and Relevance of History: Name: - Course

GEC 103: Readings in Philippine History
AY : 2020-2021 (1st Semester)

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Lesson Title: Meaning and Relevance of History

Learning Targets:
1. I can explain the meaning and importance of history.
2. I can evaluate the sources of history for their credibility, authenticity and origin.
Pretest
Multiple Choice. Instructions: Read each item carefully and answer by writing the corresponding letter of your
choice in the blank provided.
__________1. The Philippines is situated in the _____ section of Asia.

a. southeast c. northwest
b. southwest d. northeast
__________2. Which of the following is the lowest point in the Philippines?

a. Philippine Sea c. South China Sea
b. Mt. Apo d. Celebes Sea
__________3. This is the highest point in the Philippines.

a. Mt. Logan c. Mt. Apo
b. Mt. Makiling d. Mt. Mayon
__________4. How many islands is the Philippines made up of?

a. 1,050 c. 3,000
b. 7,107 d. 10,800
__________5. Who is the Philippine national hero?

a. Ferdinand Magellan c. Andres Bonifacio
b. Jose P. Rizal d. Jose A. Rizal
Good job ! Let us now proceed to the next activity.
Activity 1 KWHLS Chart :
Perhaps you already have in mind about history as a discipline in social science. Now, you are given
a chance to express your ideas by completing the task that follows. Enjoy doing!
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What I already KNOW about What I WANT to know about

history. history.
History is
The things that I want to know
__________________________ about history are:
What I STILL want to learn.
I still want to learn about the

What I LEARNED:
following:
After the lesson, I learned that
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READ!
Independent
Practice
 At this point, try to check your pretest. Refer to page # 3 of your worksheet for the
answers.
Discussion Points: 20 mins.
• History is not just the study of the past. It is a way of relating oneself to the past of the society
where he/she belongs.
• There is no way we can arrive at an absolute historical truth because we do not have direct
access to the past.
• We are presented representations of the past called historical sources.

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• It is the task of the historian to properly handle and study historical sources to arrive at a fair
historical truth.
• There are different classifications of historical sources and the value of each differs depending
on the purpose that it serves.
Answer Key for Pretest (page 1)
PROCESSING QUESTIONS: 1. A 4. B
2. A 5. B
• Why is it important to study history? 3. C
• What classifies as a historical source?
• How can the historian be fair in his/her research if history is inherently subjective?
ANSWERS:
1. Studying history is important because it allows us to identify ourselves in the larger past,
and recognize that we are shaped by historical processes. History also gives us invaluable
lessons from the past that can help us understand the present and prepare for the future.
2. Historical sources are written, verbal, and material objects produced in the past that can be
used and interpreted to understand historical events.
3. Despite the fact that history is subjective, historical study can still be done objectively and
scientifically by doing rigorous researches through a thorough study and interpretation of
sources.
SUMMARY
 History is not just the study of the past. It is also a way of studying the causes that
led to the emergence of certain historical events and phenomena.
 Studying history is useful in terms of understanding how a person is part of the

larger past; in terms of creating collective consciousness and memory; in learning
from the past and not repeating past mistakes.
 Historians are duty-bound to conduct rigorous historical research by properly using

and analyzing historical sources.
 Sources are classified as primary, secondary, and general references. Each

classification is useful in different purposes.
Concept Notes :
What is History?
 History was derived from the Greek word historia which mean “knowledge acquired through
inquiry or investigation.”

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 Historia became known as the account of the past of a person, or of a group of people
through written documents, and historical evidences.
 History was also focused on writing about wars, revolutions, and other important
breakthroughs.
 Historians are the people who study history.
 History is a study of man and his achievements from the beginning of written records to the
present time. (Gray, 1956 in Grey & Biong, 2017).
 Arthur Marwick defined history as the bodies of knowledge about the past produced by
historians, together with everything that is involved in the production, communication of, and
teaching about that knowledge
Pre-printed Notes: Sources of History
Sources are very important, in the study of history. They are the originators of information and
data. Abbot places sources with documents, written materials that says something about historical
events. Documents can be letters, receipts, copies of speech, eyewitness accounts, narrations or
books. These are some of the choices and are NOT the only sources of history.
There are some also sources which are not written such as relics, fossils, remains, and
memorabilia. Some sources are alive such as eyewitnesses. When the researcher uses them in a
research, they are always known as respondents or informants.
In the study of Philippine history, sources are called “batis” which also means stream or
a spring. A batis therefore is a spring of historical information. The usual batis are documents
especially archival documents.
HISTORICAL SOURCES
PRIMARY SOURCES GENERAL

REFERENCES
* The lifeblood of history. SECONDARY SOURCES
* A reference which point
* Directly talks about the subject * Produced by an author who the readers to the primary
matter used primary sources to or secondary sources.
* Accounts of people who are produce the material.
direct participants or eyewitness Examples:
* Documents or works made
to an event are also primary
by the individuals who are not Content of the card
sources
directly involved to the event. catalogue, internet stubs,
e.g. Archival accounts, artifacts, (e.g. Textbooks, encyclopedia summaries of books
memorabilia, letters, census, entries, magazine articles)
government records and, etc.

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Instruction: Read the following scenarios and classify whether the historical sources are Primary
source, Secondary source or a General reference. Write your answers on the space
provided.
______________________________1. Martina was tasked to make a report about a Filipino culture

of 1950s in her history class. She happened to see an old picture in her Lola’s photo album with an
inscription at the back: “Ang Pagligaw, December 28, 1958”. She decided to present this picture to the
class. Is the picture a primary, secondary source or a general reference?
______________________________2. It was a Friday afternoon when Juanito decided to attend an

orientation meeting of a civic organization in his community. His curiosity prompted him to come to
the venue early and he found the conference room empty. He looked around and he saw a
publication entitled “The Journey: A Success Story of the Street Boys”. He read the paper and he
understood that it was a narrative featuring the lives of some street children who were able to finish
their middle school with the assistance of non-government organizations serving their community.
The author made use of an interview with the street children themselves, their respective family, and
other primary sources to come up with this report. Is the publication a primary, secondary source
or a general reference?
______________________________3. Andrei is working on a subject requirement that is a book

report about Philippine History. He went to the library and borrowed a textbook for him to read and
make a report. He realized that the author used the works of the other renowned historians like
Pigafetta’s “First Voyage around the World” in writing the textbook. Is the textbook a primary,
secondary source or a general reference?
______________________________4. Mikaela was accompanied by her uncle to visit the National

Museum of the Philippines. One object that caught her attention was The Laguna Copper Plate
Inscription (LCI) which was accidentally discovered in 1986 near the mouth of Lumbang River, and is
the earliest historical document in the country. It is also the only pre-Spanish document discovered so
far. Is the LCI a primary, secondary source or a general reference?
______________________________5. Gary loves to go places alone. He usually brings along a

travel brochure as a source of information about different spots visited by many tourists. The
brochures show pictures and vicinity maps, as well as directions as her guide. This brochure is
produced by the Tourism office of the province. Is the travel brochure a primary, secondary or a
general reference?
First Voyage around the World (by Antonio Pigafetta)
That land of Verzin is wealthier and larger than Spagnia, Fransa, and Italia, put together, and
belongs to the king of Portugalo. The people of that land are not Christians, and have no manner of
worship. They live according to the dictates of nature, and reach an age of one hundred and twenty-
five and one hundred and forty years. They go naked, both men and women. They live in certain long
houses which they call boii and sleep in cotton hammocks called amache, which are fastened in those
houses by each end to large beams. A fire is built on the ground under those hammocks. In each one
of those boii, there are one hundred men with their wives and children, and they make a great racket.
They have boats called canoes made of one single huge tree, hollowed out by the use of stone
hatchets. Those people employ stones as we do iron, as they have no iron.
Thirty or forty men occupy one of those boats. They paddle with blades like the shovels of a
furnace, and thus, black, naked, and shaven, they resemble, when paddling, the inhabitants of the

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Stygian marsh. Men and women are as well proportioned as we. They eat the human flesh of their
enemies, not because it is good, but because it is a certain established custom. That custom, which is
mutual, was begun by an old woman, who had but one son who was killed by his enemies. In return
some days later, that old woman’s friends captured one of the company who had killed her son, and
brought him to the place of her abode. She seeing him, and remembering her son, ran upon him like
an infuriated bitch, and bit him on one shoulder. Shortly afterward he escaped to his own people,
whom he told that they had tried to eat him, showing them [in proof] the marks on his shoulder.
Whomever the latter captured afterward at any time from the former they ate, and the former did the
same to the latter, so that such a custom has sprung up in this way. They do not eat the bodies all at
once, but everyone cuts off a piece, and carries it to his house, where he smokes it.
Then every week, he cuts off a small bit, which he eats thus smoked with his other food to
remind him of his enemies. The above was told me by the pilot, Johane Carnagio, who came with us,
and who had lived in that land for four years. Those people paint the whole body and the face in a
wonderful manner with fire in various fashions, as do the women also. The men are [are: doublet in
original manuscript] smooth shaven and have no beard, for they pull it out. They clothe themselves in
a dress made of parrot feathers, with large round arrangements at their buttocks made from the
largest feathers, and it is a ridiculous sight.
Almost all the people, except the women and children, have three holes pierced in the lower
lip, where they carry round stones, one finger or thereabouts in length and hanging down outside.
Those people are not entirely black, but of a dark brown color. They keep the privies uncovered, and
the body is without hair, while both men and women always go naked. Their king is called cacich [i.e.,
cacique].
They have an infinite number of parrots, and gave us 8 or 10 for one mirror: and little monkeys that
look like lions, only [they are] yellow, and very beautiful. They make round white [loaves of] bread
from the marrowy substance of trees, which is not very good, and is found between the wood and the
bark and resembles buttermilk curds. They have swine which have their navels [lombelico] on their
backs, and large birds with beaks like spoons and no tongues.
The men gave us one or two of their young daughters as slaves for one hatchet or one large
knife, but they would not give us their wives in exchange for anything at all. The women will not
shame their husbands under any considerations whatever, and as was told us, refuse to consent to
their husbands by day, but only by night. The women cultivate the fields, and carry all their food from
the mountains in panniers or baskets on the head or fastened to the head. But they are always
accompanied by their husbands, who are armed only with a bow of brazil-wood or of black palm-
wood, and a bundle of cane arrows, doing this because they are jealous [of their wives]. The women
carry their children hanging in a cotton net from their necks. I omit other particulars, in order not to be
tedious. Mass was said twice on shore, during which those people remained on their knees with so
great contrition and with clasped hands raised aloft, that it was an exceeding great pleasure to behold
them. They built us a house as they thought that we were going to stay with them for some time, and
at our departure they cut a great quantity of brazil-wood [verzin] to give us. It had been about two
months since it had rained in that land, and when we reached that port, it happened to rain,
whereupon they said that we came from the sky and that we had brought the rain with us. Those
people could be converted easily to the faith of Jesus Christ.

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At first those people thought that the small boats were the children of the ships, and that the
latter gave birth to them when they were lowered into the sea from the ships, and when they were
lying so alongside the ships (as is the custom), they believed that the ships were nursing them. One
day a beautiful young woman came to the flagship, where I was, for no other purpose than to seek
what chance might offer. While there and waiting, she cast her eyes upon the master’s room, and saw
a nail longer than one’s finger. Picking it up very delightedly and neatly, she thrust it through the lips of
her vagina [natura], and bending down low immediately departed, the captain-general and I having
seen that action.
Translation by James Alexander Robertson (Blaire & Robertson, 1906)
Questions:
1. What is the selection all about?
2. What is your insight about this reading? Is this historical document significant for Filipinos?
Explain your answer.
Instruction: Write below about your own idea of the importance of history.

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Closure Activity
Instruction:
You are going to do the

following:
In balloon no. 1, write three
things that you learned from
the lesson
In balloon no.2, write two
things that you found
interesting about the lesson
In balloon no.3, formulate
one question regarding the
lesson for this day.

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References:
https://www.inkroci.com/culture_movie/literatures/literatures-from-the-world/first-voyage-
around-the-world-by-antonio-pigafetta.html


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GEC 103: Readings in Philippine History

AY : 2020-2021 (1st Semester)

Lesson Title: Meaning and Relevance of History

__________1. The Philippines is situated in the _____ section of Asia.

__________2. Which of the following is the lowest point in the Philippines?

__________3. This is the highest point in the Philippines.

__________4. How many islands is the Philippines made up of?

__________5. Who is the Philippine national hero?

Good job ! Let us now proceed to the next activity.

Activity 1 KWHLS Chart :

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What I already KNOW about What I WANT to know about

What I STILL want to learn.

I still want to learn about the

Discussion Points: 20 mins.

• We are presented representations of the past called historical sources.

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Answer Key for Pretest (page 1)

• What classifies as a historical source?

 Studying history is useful in terms of understanding how a person is part of the

 Historians are duty-bound to conduct rigorous historical research by properly using

 Sources are classified as primary, secondary, and general references. Each

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 Historians are the people who study history.

Pre-printed Notes: Sources of History

PRIMARY SOURCES GENERAL

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______________________________1. Martina was tasked to make a report about a Filipino culture

______________________________2. It was a Friday afternoon when Juanito decided to attend an

______________________________3. Andrei is working on a subject requirement that is a book

______________________________4. Mikaela was accompanied by her uncle to visit the National

______________________________5. Gary loves to go places alone. He usually brings along a

First Voyage around the World (by Antonio Pigafetta)

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Translation by James Alexander Robertson (Blaire & Robertson, 1906)

1. What is the selection all about?

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