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: INTERNAL CRITICISM 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. These are used to thoroughly scrutinize the historical sources to avoid deception. is the examination of the truthfulness of the evidence. It looks at the content of the source and examines the circumstance of its production. Internal criticism looks at the truthfulness and factuality of the evidence by looking at the author of the source. SECONDARY RESOURCES 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 Historian's tools of understanding and interpreting the past •These are the sources which were produced by an author who used primary sources to produce the material. These are historical sources which. studied a certain historical subject. MODULE 2