The Rizal Law and the study of Rizal
Why Republic Act No. 1425 exists: the 1956 Senate debate, the Church opposition, the Laurel compromise, and what the law requires of every school.
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Open lesson →General & Shared Subjects · The Life and Works of Rizal
The Life and Works of Rizal
The mandated Rizal course: the Rizal Law, the nineteenth-century setting, Rizal's life, the novels, essays and annotations, the trial and martyrdom, and the debates about his place as national hero.
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The Philippines in the nineteenth century
The world Rizal was born into: the opening of the economy, the rise of the ilustrados, Spanish liberalism, the friars, and the Cavite Mutiny and GomBurZa of 1872.
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Open lesson →Family, childhood and early schooling
The Mercado–Alonso family of Calamba, Rizal's eleven siblings, his first teachers, Biñan, the Ateneo and the University of Santo Tomás, and his first poems.
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Open lesson →Higher education and life abroad, 1882–1887
The secret departure of 1882, medicine and letters in Madrid, the Brindis of 1884, Paris and Germany, Blumentritt, and the printing of the Noli.
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Open lesson →The Propaganda Movement and La Solidaridad
The reform campaign in Spain: its aims, López Jaena, del Pilar, Ponce and Rizal, the fortnightly La Solidaridad, and the rift that ended Rizal's part in it.
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Open lesson →Rizal the historian: the annotated Morga
Rizal in London and the British Museum, why he chose Morga's Sucesos of 1609, what his annotations argued about the pre-colonial Philippines, and how they were received.
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Open lesson →Noli Me Tángere
Rizal's first novel: how it was written and printed in Berlin in 1887, its plot and characters, what they stand for, and why Spain and the friars condemned it.
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Open lesson →El Filibusterismo
The second novel printed in Ghent in 1891: Simoun's plot, the students, Cabesang Tales, Padre Florentino's answer, and how the Fili differs from the Noli.
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Open lesson →The essays: Indolence, A Hundred Years Hence and the letter to the women of Malolos
Rizal's political essays in La Solidaridad on indolence and the future of the Philippines, and his 1889 letter on the education and dignity of Filipino women.
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Open lesson →La Liga Filipina and the Dapitan exile
The return of 1892, the founding and aims of La Liga Filipina, the arrest and deportation, and four years of teaching, healing, building and science in Dapitan.
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Open lesson →Arrest, trial and martyrdom, 1896
From the voyage to Cuba to Bagumbayan: the arrest, Fort Santiago, the charges and the court martial, the Manifesto, Mi último adiós, and 30 December 1896.
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Open lesson →Rizal as national hero: debates and legacy
How Rizal became the national hero, the retraction controversy, Rizal versus Bonifacio, the 'American-sponsored hero' thesis, and his place in Filipino life today.
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