Rizal's Years at the Ateneo Municipal College De Manila PDF

**[OUTCOMES-BASED TEACHING AND LEARNING PLAN]** **LIFE, WORKS. AND WRITINGS OF RIZAL** **1^st^ Semester, A. Y 2024-2025** **Module 5** **RIZAL'S YEARS AT THE ATENEO MUNICIPAL COLLEGE DE MANILA** **Introduction:** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

**[OUTCOMES-BASED TEACHING AND LEARNING PLAN]** **LIFE, WORKS. AND WRITINGS OF RIZAL** **1^st^ Semester, A. Y 2024-2025** **Module 5** **RIZAL'S YEARS AT THE ATENEO MUNICIPAL COLLEGE DE MANILA** **Introduction:** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This module explains to us the educational background and his achievement at the Ateneo Municipal College de Manila. It will also discuss the influences that the institution instilled to Rizal and the peer group he joined with. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Date and Time Allotment:** -- -- **Lesson Objectives:** At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to; a. Comprehend on the years of his studies at the Ateneo Municipal College de Manila, b. Promote the value of education during the years of his stay school, and c. Develop and instill in the minds of our fellow Filipinos the value of education. In 1872, after the martyrdom of GOMBURZA. Jose went to the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, a college that was managed by the Jesuit in Manila. The Jesuits\' ideas and ideals of education attracted the sons of prominent Filipino families. He studied there for five years until he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with the highest honors that entitled him to enroll in any university. Don Francisco, who first wanted Rizal to study at Letran changed his mind and decided to send him to Ateneo instead. His supposed entrance to Ateneo Municipal (which became Ateneo de Manila later) was first rejected by Father Magin Fernando, the college registrar because Rizal was late for registration and was sickly and undersized for his age 11 years. However, his brother Paciano, a former aid of martyred Father Jose Burgos, pleaded to Manuel Xerex Burgos to intercede. At last Jose Rizal (his registered name at Ateneo) was admitted to the school but was assigned to sit at the last row of the class. Rizal boarded a house on Catholic Street which was owned by a spinster Titay. Rizal boarded her house to collect a part of the P300 debt of Titay. Students at the Ateneo were divided into two groups, the Roman Empire consisting of the internos (boarders) and the Carthaginians empire composed of the externos (non-boarders). The students wore a school uniform consisted of hemp-fabric trouser and striped cotton coat. Rizal's first professor at Ateneo was Father Jose Bech. At first, Rizal was an externo, a Carthaginians occupying the end of the line but after a month, he became the emperor, the brightest pupil in the class, and was awarded a religious picture as a prize- the first prize he ever won at the Ateneo. During his second term at Ateneo, he only placed second in rank because he resented some of the remarks of his professor- although all his grades were still marked "excellent'. Rizal returned to Calamba in March 1873 for summer vacation. But he did not enjoy the vacation because his mother was in prison. To cheer his sadness, Neneng (Saturnina), his sister brought him to Tanauan. At the end of the summer vacation in 1873, Rizal returned to Manila to enroll in a second-year term. This time he boarded inside Intramuros at No. 6, Magallanes street at the house owned by Doña Pepang an old widow. His schooling ended in 1877 when he graduated with the highest honors in all his subjects. After his graduation, Rizal who was then sixteen years old experienced his first romance - that painful experience which comes to nearly all adolescents". The girl was Segunda Katigbak, a pretty fourteen years old Batanguena from Lipa. But it was hopeless since the very beginning because Segunda was already engaged to be married to her townmate, Manuel Luz, Rizal, for all his artistic and intellectual prowess, was a shy and timid lover. Segunda had manifested, by insinuation and deeds. Her affection to him, but he timidly failed to purpose. Among his remarkable achievements at the Ateneo Municipal College de Manila were the following: 1. He produced two sculptural pieces carved in "*batikulin*". One was the figure of "our lady" and the other was the image of the "sacred heart". These works of art are still preserved aim in the Ateneo library. 2. The importance of education was the primary theme of his early poems while he was a student at the Ateneo municipal college de manila. These were "por la education recibe lustre la patria" (through education, the country receives light) and "Alianza intima entre la religion y la Buena education" (the intimate alliance between and good education). 3. His literary and academic excellence qualified him for membership in two prestigious societies at the Ateneo municipal college de manila; the academy of Spanish literature and the academy of natural sciences. These academies were exclusive societies, which welcomed as members-only Athenians who were gifted in literature and sciences. He later became prefect of the academy of Spanish. **REFERENCES** - Mariano M. Ariola (2013). Life, Works, and Writings of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, 61 Ground floor, Herald Building, Muralla St. Intramuros, Manila: Purely books trading and publishing corp. - Lomibao, Somera, Camus-Rivera, and Dulos, © 2011, Rizal's life, works and writings, IPM Publishing, Culiat, Tandang Sora, Quezon City. 1. Write down at least 10 awards (if possible) that you received when you are in elementary and in high school. Narrate how did you get those awards and what are the characters and qualities you possess in achieving the awards? 2. As a tertiary student, how will you address the incompetence of some students in their studies, and how will you cope up with the struggles you encounter in your studies? 3. How will you value your education amidst the Covid-19 pandemic? **[OUTCOMES-BASED TEACHING AND LEARNING PLAN]** **LIFE, WORKS. AND WRITINGS OF RIZAL** **1^st^ Semester, A. Y 2024-2025** **Module 6:** **STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STO. TOMAS AND** **THE EDUCATION AT UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE MADRID, SPAIN** **­­­Introduction:** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This module is the final lesson for the prelim period that discusses the education of Rizal at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), and the reason why Rizal left the Philippines for the first time. It will discuss also the women in the life of Rizal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Date and Time Allotment:** -- -- **Lesson Objectives:** At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to; 1. Comprehend on the years of his studies at the UST. 2. Promote the value of education during the years of his stay in school, 3. Discover the reason why Rizal left Spain and to know the itinerary of his travels to Spain, 4. Discover the sacrifices he encountered during his trip and stay in Spain, and 5. Identify and apply the values exhibited by Rizal during his stay in Spain to our present life. In April 1877, Rizal enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) for a degree in Philosophy and Letters. After completing the first year of that course, he shifted to a medical course upon the advice of his Ateneo Rector. He finally decided to take up medicine because of his desire to treat the failing eyesight of his mother. In that same school year (1877-1878), he also studied Surveying and Agriculture in Ateneo. He was more loyal to the Jesuit teachers who loved and encouraged him to pursue a higher level of knowledge. In 1880, he had his first experience of Spanish arrogance and brutality. He joined a literary contest sponsored by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila. His entry was the poem "*A la Juventud Filipina*" (To the Filipino Youth) and won the top prize of a feather-shaped silver pen with gold ribbon. The following year, the Liceo sponsored another contest celebrating the centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes. Rizal won the first prize again for his play "*El Consejo de Dioses*" (The Council of the Gods). His two-prize winning opuses had proven that a native could assert himself as superior to, if not, equal than the Spaniards in the field of literature. The pervading racial discrimination at the UST gave Rizal the theme of his one-act play, the "*Juanito al Pasig*" which he wrote during his time as President of the Academy of Spanish literature of Ateneo Municipal College de Manila. The drama satirized the friar in the person of Satan who tempted one of the characters with fabulous riches and powers. When the play was staged, the Jesuits gamely laughs at the satire, but some conservative were insulted. The academic climate at the UST was quite different from Ateneo Municipal College de Manila because most of the Dominican professors seemed hostile to him. The methods of instruction were traditional and, in some cases, repressive. Due to the unfriendly attitude of his professors, he failed to win his high scholastic honors. Although his grade in the first year of Philosophy course were all excellent, they were not impressive in the four years of medicine. Notwithstanding academic studies in UST and his extra-curricular activities in Ateneo, Rizal had ample time for love. His sad experience with his first love had made him wiser in the ways of romance. Shortly after losing Segunda Katigbak, he paid court to a young woman in Calamba. He called her simple, "Miss L", describing her as "fair with seductive and attractive eyes". After visiting her in her house several times, he suddenly stopped his wooing, and the romance died in natural death. Nobody knows who this woman was. Rizal himself did not give her name. Hence, her identity was lost to history. Rizal\'s next romance was with another Leonor- Leonor Rivera- his cousin from Camiling, Tarlac. She was the pretty daughter of his landlord-uncle and a student at La Concordia College where his youngest sister, Soledad, was then studying. Leonor, born in Camiling, Tarlac on April 11, 1967, was a frail, pretty girl "tender as a budding flower with kindly, wistful eyes". They became engaged. In her letters to Rizal, Leonor signed her name as "Taimis" to camouflage their intimate relationship from their parents and friends. After five years at the UST, he decided to quit and he continued his medical education in Spain. **The women in Rizal's life:** 1. **Segunda Katigbak-** Rizal's first teenage crush - From Lipa city, Batangas - Also known as PAISANA, but Rizal referred her in his diary as "K". - A gay, talkative, witty, virginal, and beguiling woman. - Their romance died because Jose Rizal found out that Segunda was engaged to be married, Manuel Luz. 2. **Margarita Almeda Gomez** also is known as MISS L - The second love of Rizal - Form Pakil, Laguna - With fair complexion, seductive, and attractive eyes. - Their romance died for 2 reasons. 1. The memory of Segunda is still fresh in the heart of Jose Rizal and 2. Rizal's father objected to the love affair of Rizal with Miss L. 3. **Leonor Valenzuela (orang)** - From Pagsanjan, Laguna - Daugther of Capitan Juan and Capitana Sanday Valenzuela. - A medical student from UST. - He sent love notes written in invisible ink which consisted of common table salt and water. 4. **Vicenta Ybardoloza** - A pretty girl colegiala - Rizal as infatuated with a young girl of Pakil, Laguna and nobody knew what happened later between the two. 5. **Leonor Rivera (TAIMIS)** - Secrest love and inspiration of Rizal for 11 years. - From Camiling, Tarlac - Born on April 11, 1867 - Her Parents are Antonio Rivera and Silvestra Bauson - Their relationship was a "love affair by correspondence" - Their relationships ended because she married her mother's choice Charles Henry C. Kipping (an English Engineer) - Died on August 28, 1893 - She was the woman immortalized by Rizal in "Maria Clara' in his Noli Me Tangere. 6. **Consuelo Ortega y Rey** - Daughter of Don Pablo Ortega y Rey (a former Civil Governor of Manila) - August 22, 1883 (Rizal wrote a poem entitled A LA SEÑORITA C.O.Y.R - Their romance ended and parted ways because Rizal's was still engaged to Leonor Rivera and Consuela was engaged to Eduardo De Lete. 7. **O sei-san** - A Japanese woman of Yokohama, Japan - Rizal met O sei-san on the store owned by the father of o sei-san. - Their friendship bloomed into romance. - When rizla boarded the steamer BELGIC bounded for the United States, he left o sei-san. 8. **Gertrude Beckett (gettie)** - Oldest of the three Beckett sisters. - He could not reciprocate the girl's affection and marry her because of loyalty to Leonor Rivera, his sweetheart in the Philippines. 9. **Suzanne Jacoby (petite)** - A niece of the Rizal's landlady in Brussels, Belgium - Suzanne fell in love with Rizal because he was so charming and gentleman. - They ended their romance because Rizal left Belgium to Madrid, Spain the end of July 1890. 10. **Nelly Boustead (Nellie)** - The prettier and younger daughter of Eduardo Boustead - Gay-hearted, sports-minded, witty, vivacious, and with high moral. - Their romance ended because of two reasons. 1. He refused to give up his Catholic faith and be converted to Protestanism and 2. Nelly's mother didn't like Rizal as a son-in-law. 11. **Pastora Necesario (torak)** - She was a beautiful shy-type weaver of cloth o at Dapitan. - He gave a statue of a woman and sent her love letter and concern a sign of his love. - When Rizal was executed, she married Gonzalo Carreon of Dapitan. 12. **Josephine Bracken** - An Irish pretty girl born in Hongkong on October 3, 1876 - She arrived in Dapitan in February 1895 with his blind uncle Mr. Taufer and with a Filipino companion Manuela Orlac. - They fell in love at first sight. - Father Obach refused to marry Rizal at bracken without the permission of the Bishop of Cebu. - They had one child named "Francisco" but died after 3 hours after birth because he was an 8 months old premature baby. - During his last hours of Rizal, he gave a wedding gift to bracken, a religious book entitled "imitacion de Cristo". **Rizal's Departure for Spain** - The persons who knew the departure of Rizal for Spain are Paciano, Antonio Rivera, Narcissa, and Lucia. - May 3, 1882 -- Rizal was aboard on the steamer SALVADORA using the name Jose Mercado. - May 8, 1882 -- Rizal stopover for 2 days at Singapore (TALIM ISLAND WITH THE SUSONG DALAGA) he met the founder of Singapore, Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles. - May 11, 1882 -- Rizal was on board to another steamer DJEMNAH, a French steamer that is larger than Salvadora. - May 17, 1882 -- Rizal arrived at Point Galle, in southern Ceylon or Sri Lanka. The town was lovely, quiet, and sad at the same time. - May 18, 1882 -- Rizal stopover at Colombo, the capital city of Ceylon. - May 28, 1882 -- DJEMNAH continued to voyage until they reach the Cape of Guardafin in Africa. - June 2, 1882 - He proceeded to Suez Canal. It took 5 days to travel to the Suez Canal. - June 11, 1882 -- The steamer docked at the French harbor of Marseilles.at Hotel Noailles for three days. - June 15, 1882 -- the steamer left Marseilles and Rizal travelled by train on its last trip to Spain. - June 16, 1882 -- Rizal continued his trip for the last lap by train for Spain and finally reaching his destination. Barcelona, Spain. He reached Barcelona, Spain by rail. He wrote a nationalistic essay "*Amor Patrio*" which was the first written article in Spanish soil. He then sent his article to Basilio Teodoro Moran, publisher of Diariong Tagalog. - November 3, 1882- he enrolled at the Unibersidad Central de Madrid. **Life in Barcelona and Madrid** - He took up 2 courses in UCDM (medicine and Philosophy and Letters) - Studied painting and sculpture at the academy of fine arts, San Fernando - He budgeted his money and time and never wasted a peseta for gambling, wine, and women - He was deeply affected by Beecher Stowe\'s "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Eugene Sue's "Wandering Jew" for the oppressed and unfortunate people. - Being a lonely man in a foreign country, he fell into Consuelo Ortega y Rey. Composed a lovely poem entitled *"A La Senorita C.O.Y.R*". But he refused the love of Consuelo because he was still engaged to Leonor Rivera. In 1883, he joined the Masonic Lodge Acacia in Madrid, his masonic name was Dimas-Alang. He joined Masonry for two reasons. 1. The abuse committed by friars against the Filipino people. 2. The possible help the Masons could extend as a protective shield to use in his fight against evil forces of tyranny and exploitation. He became a Master of Mason in Lodge Solidaridad and from then on, he ceased going to church regularly. Rizal and other Filipino students together with other foreign students participated in the bloody riots that erupted at Central University. The issue at hand was Dr. Miguel Morayta's proclamation of "freedom of science and the teacher" during the opening ceremonies of the academic year in 1884. The reactionary catholic bishops of Spain condemned this liberal view and Dr. Morayta as excommunicated. This angered the students and violent riots started. The university rector who sided with the students was forced to resign. In June 1884, he was awarded the degree of Licentiate in medicine. The next academic year. He passed all subjects leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine. However, he was not awarded his doctoral diploma because he did not present the thesis required for graduation nor and was no ability to pay the corresponding fees. He was awarded the degree of Licentiate in Philosophy and Letters on June 19, 1885, his 24^th^ birthday with the rating of excellent. By obtaining this degree, he became qualified to be a professor in many universities in Spain. Likewise, by receiving his degree of Licentiate in Medicine, he became a full-fledged physician, qualified to practice medicine. **REFERENCES** - Mariano M. Ariola (2013). Life, Works, and Writings of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, 61 Ground floor, Herald Building, Muralla St. Intramuros, Manila: Purely books trading and publishing corp. - Lomibao, Somera, Camus-Rivera, and Dulos, © 2011, Rizal's life, works and writings, IPM Publishing, Culiat, Tandang Sora, Quezon City. **Insight Sharing:** (5 points each) all your answers will be put on a yellow pad paper. 1. One of the romances of Rizal had a conflict because of their religion. As a student, how will you address the conflict of religious differences in a romantic relationship? Do you think religion is more important rather than your feelings? Why or why not? 2. What is the reason why Rizal was deeply affected by the novel of Beecher Stowe\'s entitled "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? 3. Do you consider Rizal as a lover boy? 4. Narrate the romance between Rizal and Leonor Rivera, why is it called "love by correspondence'.  **Worksheet 5: Identification:** 1. A group of students in Ateneo Municipal De Manila who consider an Externo. 2. She was the first romance of Jose P. Rizal. 3. Talim island with the Sosong Dalaga. 4. Upon enrolling at Ateneo, the course that Rizal took up. 5. The only child of Josephine Bracken and Jose P. Rizal. 6. A niece of Rizal's landlady in Brussel, Belgium who had a romance with Rizal. 7. A group of students in Ateneo Municipal de Manila considers as the interno. 8. The secret love-romance of Rizal. 9. The masonic name of Rizal when he joined the Masonic Lodge Acacia in Madrid. 10. An Irish pretty girl who fell in love with Rizal.