Activity 2 in Rizal

1. DURING THE FORMAL EDUCATION OF JOSE RIZAL, WHO WAS HIS TEACHER?
Rizal’s first teacher was his mother, Teodora Alonso. As a tutor, Doña Teodora discovered that her son
had a creative and in-depth talent for poetry so she encouraged him to write poems to reduce the
monotony of memorizing the ABC’s and to stimulate her son’s imagination.
2. WHAT ARE THE INJUSTICES TO RIZAL'S FAMILY?

The injustices committed by Spain and its officials were many and Rizal was not the only victim. The
injustice was only implemented by the Spanish Military Government and instigated by envious and
vengeful religious Spanish Friars of the time. Rizal’s mother, Teodora Alonzo, who was 54 years old at
that time and was near blind, was arrested and was made to walk more than 30 kilometers from their
home to a detention cell because she was suspected that she allegedly aided her brother, Jose Alberto, in
trying to poison Alberto’s wife. Then the family was driven out from their lands because the Dominican
friars claimed the whole of Calamba as their domain. At that time, Rizal was in Europe and his father
Francisco Mercado and brother Paciano Rizal were on exile in Hong Kong. He surmised that it was the
harassment and maltreatment that his family was subjected to could have added to the rage felt by Rizal
when he wrote “Noli Me Tangere” and El Filibusterismo,” the two books that further enraged the
Spaniards as well.
3. WHY WAS DOÑA TEODORA THROWN IN JAIL?

Doña Teodora was arbitrary arrested on malicious charge that she aided her brother, Jose Alberto, in
trying to poison Alberto’s wife. Jose Alberto was a prominent man in Biñan who owned big truck of land.
In one occasion, he went to Europe on ta business trip. During his absence his wife, abandoned their
conjugal home and lived with another man. When he b returned to Biñan, he was mad and enraged by her
infidelity, so he planned to file an annulment of their marriage. He believed that his wife’s sexual
infidelity scandal, and to protect the owner of the family, Doña Teodora, persuaded her brother Jose
Alberto his erring wife. While the family problem was amicably settled, and Jose Alberto lived again with
his unfaithful wife, she connived with the lieutenant of the Guardia Civil to fabricate unfounded pieces of
evidence that her husband to poison her, with Doña Teodora’s participation as an accomplice. This
lieutenant had an ax to grind against Rizal family because one time Rizal’s father refused to give fodder
for his horse. Doña Teodora, the accused, should have been confined in the Calamba jail. The judge, who
had also been a guest many times to Rizal home, was vengeful. Like the lieutenant, he nursed a grudge
against Rizal family becaused he imagined that he was not accorded greater respect that the Filipino
guests in Rizal home. The lieutenant forced the hero’s mother tp walk on foot from Calamba to Santa
Cruz, a distance of more than 50 kilometers. Doña Teodora, as a worthy mother of a hero, endured her
cruel fate with Christian resignation and courage.
4. WHAT ARE THE INFLUENCES OF RIZAL FROM OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY?
Jose Rizal’s relatives who influenced him greatly mostly consisted of his mother’s brother who are Tio
Jose, Tio Manuel, and Tio Gregorio. Tio Jose is the youngest among the siblings of Teodora, and was
schooled in Calcutta, India. He was Jose’s inspiration as he sketches, and paints. Tio Jose encouraged him
to engage in sculpturing. With his Tio Manuel, who known to be big and strong, he influenced Rizal to
visit outdoors, do long walks with his pet black dog, Usman and even go horseback riding with his horse,
castano. And with his Tio Gregorio, he learned the value of hardwork, careful observation of life, as well
as independent thinking. Through him, Jose became interested in the printed page.
5. WHAT ARE HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS WHEN HE ENTERED ATENEO MUNICIPAL AND

WHAT OLD IS HE AND WHAT ARE THE POEMS WRITTEN UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF
FATHER SANCHEZ?
When he was 11 years old, Rizal entered the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. He earned excellent marks in
subjects like philosophy, physics, chemistry, and natural history. Rizal also obtained his bachelor of arts
degree in 1877 with the grade of Sobresaliente (Excellent) and got five first prize medals in philosophy,
drawing, comportamiento (good behavior), good boarder, and aplicacion (studiousness) as well as
honorable mention in physics and chemistry. Jose Rizal is the Ateneo’s greatest student and graduated
with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ateneo Municipal. He was one of nine hailed as sobresaliente in
his graduating class of twelve. Poems written under the guidance of Fr. Sanches:  The Tragedy of St.
Eustace  In the Memory of my Town  Intimate Alliance between Religion and Good Education 
Through Education Motherland Receives Enlightenment. And Rizal wrote poems that was inspired by
Father Sanchez are Felicitation (Felicitationi), El Embarque: Himno a la Flota de Magallanes (The
Departure: Hymn to Magellan’s Fleet), Y Es Espanol; Elcano; el Primero en dar la Vuelta al Mundo (And
He is Spanish: Elcano, the First to Circumnavigate the World) and the El Combae: Urbiztondo, Terror de
Jolo (The Battle: Urbiztondo, Terror de Jolo).
6. AS STUDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF STO THOMAS, WHAT COURSE HE ENROLLED

AND IN WHAT YEAR?
He enrolled Philosophy and Letters in April 1877 with a reasons that his father liked it and he was still
uncertain as to what career to follow.
7. WHAT COURSE HE TOOK UP IN ATENEO DURING SY 1877-1878?

In 1877-1878, Rizal simultaneously taking a course on land surveying (vocational) at Ateneo. He
completed the surveyor’s course and was awarded the title “Perito Agrimensor” and obtaining gold
medals in agriculture and topography.
8. RIZAL WAS NOT ABLE TO PRACTICE SURVEYORS PROFESSION, FOR WHAT

REASON?
At the age of 17, He passed the final examination for the course of surveying but could not practice the
profession since he was still under-aged at that time.
9. WHAT IS THE TITLE AWARDED TO RIZAL IN ATENEO?

Awarded the title “Perito Agrimensor” or Expert surveyors in his vocational course.
10. WE LEARNED THAT RIZAL TOOK UP MEDICINE AT UST, AND HE DECIDED TO

DISCONTINUE HIS STUDIES IN THE PHILIPPINES AND CONTINUE IN SPAIN, FOR
WHAT REASONS?
He decided to discontinue his studies in the Philippines and continue in Spain to widen his knowledge, to
avail of more conducive conditions and become an eye specialist in order to cure her mother from eye
ailment and also to study the cultures, laws, and government of European countries in order to help his
countrymen.
11. WHAT IS THE ORIGINAL NAME OF THE RIZAL'S FAMILY, AND THAT SURNAME
WAS ADOPTED IN WHAT YEAR, BY WHOM, AND IT MEANS WHAT?
The original surname of the Rizal family was “Mercado". This surname was adopted by Domingo Lam-
co the paternal Chinese ancestor in 1731. In spanish, Mercado means “market" which Lam-co chose
because of his business acumen and venture. In 1849, Governor Claveria issued a decree directing all
Filipino families to choose and adopt new surnames from a list of Spanish family names. It should be
noted that the purpose of this decree was to Hispanize the Filipino surnames. Rizal’s father scrutinized
carefully the list of surnames sent to Calamba such as “Cruz, “Diaz", Guzman", “Luna", “Ramos",
“Reyes", “Rivera",” Santos", and “Trinidad". He did not have any interest in these surnames so he chose
his own surname Rizal, which apparently was not in the list recommended by the Spanish authorities. He
preferred this new family name Rizal to be more fitting and appropriate for his farming clan to Mercado
which means “market" in Spanish. It is interesting to note that the term “Rizal" originated from the word
ricial which signifies “green field".

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1. DURING THE FORMAL EDUCATION OF JOSE RIZAL, WHO WAS HIS TEACHER?

2. WHAT ARE THE INJUSTICES TO RIZAL'S FAMILY?

3. WHY WAS DOÑA TEODORA THROWN IN JAIL?

5. WHAT ARE HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS WHEN HE ENTERED ATENEO MUNICIPAL AND

6. AS STUDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF STO THOMAS, WHAT COURSE HE ENROLLED

7. WHAT COURSE HE TOOK UP IN ATENEO DURING SY 1877-1878?

8. RIZAL WAS NOT ABLE TO PRACTICE SURVEYORS PROFESSION, FOR WHAT

9. WHAT IS THE TITLE AWARDED TO RIZAL IN ATENEO?

10. WE LEARNED THAT RIZAL TOOK UP MEDICINE AT UST, AND HE DECIDED TO

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