The Life and Works of Rizal
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“MERCADO-RIZAL FAMILY INFLUENCES”
MS. GRACE M. ABALAHIN
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL
MERCADO-RIZAL FAMILY INFLUENCES
• To understand the Role of Rizal’s Family in
Development of his Thoughts and Character
• To comprehend the literary works of Dr.
Jose P. Rizal like Tagalog poem, “Sa Aking
Mga Kabata (To My Fellow Children)
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Family is the basic and the oldest social institution and it is
very important in shaping the character of the child. It is the first
means where socializing influence is encountered by the most
children and this in effect influences them for the rest of their live.
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• Remember that Family is important in
shaping the character of the child and the basic
and the oldest social institution
• The greatest influence on Rizal’s
development as a person.
• His poem “Sa Aking Mga Kabata” his
reactions to this include faith in the youth and
how they are empowered as well as encouraged
to change their country for a better future.
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V. DISCUSSION
Role of Rizal’s Family in Development of his
Thoughts and Character
• Family is the basic and the oldest social institution
• very important in shaping the character of the
child
• first means where socializing influence is
encountered
• effect influences for the rest of their live.
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The Mercado - Rizal Family.
• The Rizals is considered one of the biggest
families during their time.
• Domingo Lam-co, the family's paternal
ascendant was a full-blooded Chinese who came
to the Philippines from Amoy, China in the closing
years of the 17th century and married a Chinese
half-breed by the name of Ines de la Rosa.
• Researchers revealed that the Mercado-Rizal
family had also traces of Japanese, Spanish,
Malay and even Negrito blood aside from the
Chinese.
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• Jose Rizal came from a 13-member family
consisting of his parents, Francisco Mercado II and
Teodora Alonso Realonda, and nine sisters and
one brother.
• Of all the persons who had the greatest influence
on Rizal’s development as a person was his
mother Teodora Alonso.
• opened his eyes and heart to the world around
him—with all its soul and poetry
• Rizal proved to keep faith the lessons she taught
him.
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FRANCISCO MERCADO (1818-1898)
Father of Jose Rizal who was the youngest of 13
offsprings of Juan and Cirila Mercado. Born in
Biñan, Laguna on April 18, 1818; studied in San
Jose College, Manila; and died in Manila.
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TEODORA ALONSO (1827-1913)
Mother of Jose Rizal who was the second child of
Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de Quintos. She studied
at the Colegio de Santa Rosa. She was a business-
minded woman,
courteous, religious,
hard-working and well read.
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• SATURNINA RIZAL (1850-1913) a u
• Eldest child of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage. Married Manuel
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Only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San
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Jose College in Manila; became a farmer and later a general of 4
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• NARCISA RIZAL (1852-1939) June 12, 1956
• The third child. married Antonio Lopez at Morong, Rizal; a
teacher and musician.
• OLYMPIA RIZAL (1855-1887)
• The fourth child. Married Silvestre Ubaldo; died in 1887 from
childbirth
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• LUCIA RIZAL (1857-1919)
The fifth child. Married Matriano Herbosa.
• MARIA RIZAL (1859-1945)
The sixth child. Married Daniel Faustino Cruz of
Biñan, Laguna
JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896)
• The second son and the seventh child. He was
executed by the Spaniards on December
30,1896.
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• CONCEPCION RIZAL (1862-1865)
The eight child. Died at the age of three.
• JOSEFA RIZAL (1865-1945)
The ninth child. An epileptic, died a spinster.
• TRINIDAD RIZAL (1868-1951)
The tenth child. Died a spinster and the last of the family to die.
• SOLEDAD RIZAL (1870-1929)
The youngest child married Pantaleon Quintero.
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• His mother was his first teacher, and from her he
learned to read, and consequently to value reading as a
means for learning and spending one’s time
meaningfully.
• It did not take long before he learnt to value time as
life’s most precious gift, for she taught him never to
waste a single second of it.
• From his mother he learnt the primacy of improving
oneself- thus growing up he took pains to comprehend
the logic of mathematics; to write poems; to draw, and
sculpt; to paint.
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• as a student in Spain he became the most
assiduous of students, never missing a class
despite his activities as Propaganda leader, or an
examination, despite having to take it on an empty
stomach.
• By his example, he inspired his compatriots –
those who had sunk into a life of dissipation,
wasting time and allowances on gambling and
promiscuity- to return to their studies and deserve
their parents’ sacrifices back home.
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• By taking the lead in running the family’s businesses-
farms, flour and sugar milling, tending a store, even
making fruit preserves, aside from running a
household
• Teodora imbibed in him the value of working with
one’s hands, of self-reliance and entrepreneurship.
• And by sharing with others she taught him
generosity and helping to make the world a better
place for those who had less in the material life.
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• All these lessons he applied himself during his
exile in Dapitan, as he improved its
community by building a dam; encouraging
the locals to grow fruit trees, establishing a
school, even documenting the local flora and
fauna.
• His mother also taught him to value hard-
earned money
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Despite growing up in comfort and wealth.
These would later prove very useful to him
during his stay in Europe as he struggled with
• delayed allowance that his family sent him (by
then his family was undergoing financial
reverses due to land troubles)
• he went without lunch and supper, putting up
a front before everyone by going out of his
dormitory everyday
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• Other times he saved up on rent by foregoing
breakfast altogether, his breakfast consisting
of biscuits and water for a month.
• as he walked the streets of Berlin or
Barcelona, his nostrils would be assailed by
the delicious aroma of the dishes being
cooked within buildings and houses,
increasing his hunger pangs and his suffering
all the more.
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• Above all, it was from her he learned about obedience
• through the story of the moth that got burned by the
flame because he disobeyed his mother moth’s warning
not to get too near the flame.
• But life as it often happens has poignant way of turning
around, for it was obedience to the Catholic Church, as his
mother taught him, which proved too hard to live by
especially when he struggled with a crisis of faith in its
teachings. Teodora took none too gently his defection
from the Church, which she saw was an apostasy from
faith itself.
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• One of the turning points of his life, which had a
profound influence on his becoming a political activist
later on, was the unjust arrest of his mother on the
charge of conspiring to poison a relative, despite the
lack of evidence against her. But what made the arrest
even worse was her humiliating treatment at the hands
of authorities who made her walk all the way from
Calamba to the provincial jail in Santa Cruz, which was
50 kilometers far. There she was imprisoned for two
years before gaining her freedom. All these she took
with calm and quiet dignity
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Rizal were the results of many influences:
• His uncles and ancestors were not only interested in education but
in politics
• Three uncles who were brothers of his mother also had
much influence on the early childhood of Jose Rizal. The youngest
uncle named Jose, took care of teaching regular lessons
to Rizal. His huge uncle Manuel developed his physique until he
had a body of silk and steel and no longer a skinny and sickly boy.
• also; his studies and travels in Asia, American and Europe; his
being well-versed in four major languages — English, Spanish,
French and German; his rich studies and researches in the libraries
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• Rizal's greatest influence, for example, was his
older brother Paciano. Paciano
Rizal successfully served as Jose's guardian
and hero. He was the second of eleven
children in the family of Don Francisco
Mercado and Doña Teodora Alonso, of
which Jose was the youngest.
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• His first teacher, his mother together
with his uncles, and brother first molded
him to become the person he is known
today. At the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog
poem, “Sa Aking Mga Kabata,” the theme
of which revolves on the love of one’s
language.
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The poem entitled Sa Aking Mga Kabata was
written by the Philippines national hero, Dr. Jose
Rizal. The reactions to this poem include faith in
the youth and how they are empowered as well
as encouraged to change their country for a
better future.
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To My Fellow Children
translated by Fank C. Laubach
Whenever eople of a country truly love
The language which by heav’n they were taught to use
That country also surely liberty pursue
As does the bird which soars to freer space above.
For language is the final judge and referee
Upon the people in the land where it holds sway;
In truth our human race resembles in this way
The other living beings born in liberty.
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Whoever knows not how to love his native tongue
Is worse than any best or evil smelling fish.
Like bancas in the stormy sea, long years ago.
To make our language richer ought to be our wish
The same as any mother loves to feed her young.
Tagalog and the Latin language are the same
And English and Castilian and the angels’ tongue;
And God, whose watchful care o’er all is flung,
Has given us His blessing in the speech we claim,
Our mother tongue, like all the highest that we know
Had alphabet and letters of its very own;
But these were lost — by furious waves were overthrown
The Life and Works of RiZal
Dr. Jose P. Rizal first teacher, his mother together
with his uncles, and brother first molded him to
become the person he is known today and at the age
8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, “Sa Aking Mga Kabata,”
the theme of which revolves on the love of one’s
language. The poem entitled Sa Aking Mga Kabata The
reactions to this poem include faith in the youth and
how they are empowered as well as encouraged to
change their country for a better future.
Subject Title: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL GE9-
TLWR
Module No.4
• SELF-CHECK PR-4.1.1
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• Fill in the blanks with the correct answer.
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• ____________ the basic and the oldest social institution and it is very important in shaping the character of the child.
• _________ is considered one of the biggest families during their time.
• Jose Rizal came from a _____member family consisting of his parents, Francisco Mercado II and Teodora Alonso Realonda,
and nine sisters and one brother.
• _____________________is the Only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San Jose College in Manila;
became a farmer and later a general of the Philippine Revolution.
• Of all the persons who had the greatest influence on Rizal’s development as a person was his
________________________________.
• His uncles and ancestors were not only interested in education but in _____________.
• At the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, “________________________” the theme of which revolves on the love of one’s
language.
• 8 to 9 The reactions to this poem include faith in the youth and how they are empowered as well as encouraged to
____________their country for a better ______________
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• 10. Whoever knows not how to love his native tongue
Is worse than any best or ________________________________.
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Q1.4.1-1
Essay about the Poetry of Rizal
Pen & Paper
none
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Q1.4.1-1
Read and interpret about “To My Fellow Children”
Explain each Stanza of the poetry
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• Screenshot of hand written answer on bondpaper and uploaded at Edmodo
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• Handwritten bondpaper and submitted at AISAT Campus
• Five days after the discussion.
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