Class Activity: Rizal's Life and Works
Class Activity: Rizal's Life and Works
Class Activity: Rizal's Life and Works
1. Create a timeline of Rizal’s Childhood and Early Education (Short bond paper) -
(30 pts)
1886
Rizal receives a degree in medicine from the Central University of Madrid at the age of 23. He
then becomes an assistant to Dr. L. de Wecker and visits many universities in Berlin, Leipzig,
and Heidelberg in the country of Germany.
Fame... Then Death and Legacy
1887
Rizal finishes his first novel titled Noli Me Tangere while staying in Berlin. The novel offends
Catholic officials and Rizal is deemed to be a troublemaker
He then travels to Austria, Switzerland, and Italy.
On July 3 Rizal leaves from Mersailles in Italy and arrives in Manila on August 5th. He travels
to nearby areas escorted by a Spanish Lieutenant.
1888
In February Rizal leaves Spain and sets sail for Hong Kong in Japan. He continued to travel
practice medicine and write.
1892
In August Rizal was detained aboard a ship traveling back to Spain. Rizal was charged with
treason, sedition, and the formation of illegal societies. He was sent to an island and held.
He taught for four years while being held.
He met a girl named Josephine Bracken who he wanted to marry but the church refused to give
him a license to marry.
He penned his last piece of writing called My Last Farewell and wrote an address to Filipino
insurgents to lay down their arms against the Spanish. The address was never made public, but
was added to the list of charges against him.
1896
His request to go to Cuba was approved. On the way to Cuba he was arrested and charged with
conspiracy and sedition.
On December 27 he was condemned to death in a Spanish court
On December 30th he was permitted to marry Josephine two hours before he was shot by a firing
squad.
He was buried in a secret grave.
1912
On December 30th the ashes of Rizal were transferred to the Rizal Mausoleum and December
30th is declared a national holiday in honor of his memory.
José Rizal's life and works were critical to those from the Philippines who were looking for an
end to Spanish colonization.
3. Compare your early childhood (biography) with Rizal’s own. (10 pts)
My early childhood was so different compare to Rizal’s childhood. After when Rizal got
baptized, he’s paper has been burn, compare to mine, my baptism is not so controversial like
him. Rizal was born to rich family and with a great name. Me, I was born to simple family. Rizal
loves education more than things we loved as a child, he knew alphabet at the age of four and has
different person who teach him. Me when I was at that age, I doesn’t love so much education,
what in my mind was only about playing.