Midterm Rizal
Midterm Rizal
Midterm Rizal
Rizal is a product of mixed ancestry for a fact that the blood flows in
his veins had both East and West – Chinese, Japanese, Malay and
Spanish. He was a sixth-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo
Lam-co (Chinese: Ke Yinan), a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who
sailed to the Philippines from Jinjiang, Quanzhou then arrived in 1690 and
decided to change the family surname to the Spanish surname "Mercado"
(market) which indicate their Chinese merchant roots, with a reason to
free his descendants from the anti-Chinese animosity of the Spanish
authorities. During his stay, Lam-co became a Christian and married Inez
de la Rosa, a Sangley native of Luzon and they were blessed with only
son named Francisco Mercado, who then married Cirila Bernancha, a
ChineseFilipino mestiza, where she had given birth to Juan Mercado
(Rizal’s grandfather), who married Cirila Alejandro also a Chinese-Filipino
mestiza, blessed with thirteen children, the youngest was Francisco
Mercado, Jose Rizal’s father. Aside from indigenous Filipino and Chinese
ancestry, Rizal’s maternal great-greatgrandfather, Eugenio Ursua was a
descendant of Japanese settlers, who married a Filipina named Benigna.
They gave birth to Regina Ursua who married a Sangley mestizo from
Pangasinán named Atty. Manuel de Quintos and then had bear a
daughter named Brígida de Quintos married a Spanish mestizo named
Lorenzo Alberto Alonso, the father of Teodora. In 1849, Governor-General
Narciso Claveria ordered all Filipino families to choose new surnames
from a list of Spanish family names. José's father, Francisco adopted the
surname "Rizal" (originally Ricial, the green of young growth or green
fields), which was suggested to him by a provincial governor, whom José
described as "a friend of the family."
2. Outline the important facts on Chapter 2 “Early Childhood Memories and Early in
Calamba”.
A. The tragic fate of the young moth, which “died a martyr to its illusions’’
III. Early Education in Biñan
A. Wrote a poem in Tagalog entitled “Sa Aking Mga Kabata” (To My Fellow
Children)
V. First Taste of Injustice
3. Outline the important facts on Chapter 3 “School Life at Ateneo Municipal and
The
University of Santo Tomas”
I. Jose Rizal’s First Day and First Year in Ateneo
A. His first teacher was Fr. Jose Bech
B. He was awarded a saint’s picture
C. At the end of the term he obtained marks of excellent in all the subjects
and in the examinations
II. The Next Four Years in Ateneo de Municipal (1873 – 1877)
A. Release of his mother, Doña Teodora in prison
B. Began to win prizes in the quarterly examinations
C. Devoted his self in reading novels like Alexander Dumas’ the Count of
Monte
D. Cristo
E. Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez inspired him to study more and write
poetry
F. Fr. Leoncio Lopez apologize to Jose
G. Jose has the guidance of Don Augustin Saez in drawing and painting
H. In sculpture, Romualdo de Jesus was his instructor
I. Fr. Villaclara in philosophy advised him once to leave his devotion in
poetry but Jose still continue to write during his vacant time
J. Gained recognition as the most brilliant Atenean of his time and the “pride
of the
K. Jesuits”
a) Graduated with highest honor and an active member of the Marian
Congregation
III. “My First Inspiration”
A. A poem written for his mother’s birthday
a. Mi Primera Inspiracion
B. A poem inspired by Fr Sanchez
a. Felicitation (Felicitation)
b. El Embarque: Himno a la Flota de Magallanes (The Departure:
Hymn to
Magellan’s Fleet)
c. Y Es Español: Elcano, el Primero en dar la Vuelta al Mundo
(And He is
Spanish: Elcano, the First Circumnavigate the World)
d. El Combate: Urbiztondo, Terror de Jolo (The Battle: Urbiztondo,
Terror of Jolo)
C. A poem inspired with topics on religion, education, childhood memories
and war
a. Un Recuerdo a Mi Pueblo (In Memory of My Town)