RPH TOPIC2
RPH TOPIC2
RPH TOPIC2
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‘First Man &
Woman From
Bamboo’
Philippine
Soon Myths
a bamboo tree grew up, and from the hollow of one of
its branches, a man and a woman came out. The man's name
was Sicalac, and the woman was called Sicabay. They were
the parents of the human race. Their first child was a son
whom they called Libo; afterward, they had a daughter who
was known as Saman. (ASHLIMAN, 2003)
SOURCES OF HISTORICAL
DATA
PRIMARY SOURCES are original, first-hand accounts of an event or
period that are usually written or made during or close to the event or
period. These sources are original and factual, not interpretive. Their key
function is to provide facts.
PRIMARY SOURCES
are the raw materials of historical research - they are the documents or
artifacts closest to the topic of investigation.
SECONDARY SOURCES
offer an analysis or a restatement of primary sources. They often
attempt to describe or explain primary sources.
1. Bibliographies
2. Biographical works
3. Reference books, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and atlases
4. Articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers after the event
5. Literature reviews and review articles (e.g., movie reviews, book
reviews)
6. History books and other popular or scholarly books
7. Works of criticism and interpretation
8. Commentaries and treatises
Advantage and
disadvantage of
Secondary sources
Advantage Disadvantage
• Provide analysis, • Do not provide exact
synthesis, information
interpretation of • Do not represent first
the original hand knowledge
information
• Countless information
Sources of Historical Data
(1)narrative or literary,
(2)diplomatic or juridical, and
(3)social documents.
Pre-Hispanic Art
Sources of Historical Data
NARRATIVE OR LITERATURE are chronicles or tracts presented in narrative form,
written to impart a message whose motives for their composition vary widely.
For example,
1. SCIENTIFIC TRACT is typically composed in order to inform contemporaries or
succeeding generations;
Death Mask and Earrings from Butuan. From the “Tresors Philippine” exhibit, Musee de l'Homme, Paris, 1996. Photograph by Pascal Goetgheluck.
DIPLOMATIC SOURCE is the charter, SOCIAL DOCUMENTS
which is a legal instrument. A legal are information pertaining to
document is usually sealed or economic, social, political, or
authenticated to provide evidence that a judicial significance. They are
legal transaction has been completed and records kept by bureaucracies.
can be used as evidence in a judicial A few examples are government
proceeding in case of a dispute. reports, such as municipal
accounts, research findings, and
DIPLOMATIC SOURCE possess specific documents like parliamentary
formal properties, such as hand and print procedures, civil registry
style, the ink, the seal, for external records, property registers, and
properties, and rhetorical devices and records of the census.
images for internal properties, which are
determined by the norms of laws and by
tradition. Such characters also vary in time
(each generation has its own norms) and
according to origin (each bureaucracy has
its own traditions).
Group Activity (First Activity)
• The class should be divided into 6 groups.
• The class will be assigned to specific topics.
• The class should provide primary sources and secondary sources
of the topic assigned to them.
• Everyone in the group should perform or present.
• The group should justify their output.
• The output will be presented through PPT, Canva, or Scribd.
• The group should cite their references at the last slide of their
presentation.
Topics
1. First Land of Magellan in the PH
2. Japanese Invasion in the PH
3. The Katipunan Revolution
4. The First Mass Happened in the PH
5. The Philippines Independence Day in 1946
6. PH in the Pre-colonial Time
Rubrics
Accuracy – 20 pts.
Content – 20 pts.
Organization – 20 pts.
Justification – 20 pts.
Delivery - 20 pts.
Total – 100 pts.