Primary Sources
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
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PRE-COMPETENCY CHECKLIST
1. History
- History is the study of the past; it is a broad concept that encompasses past events such as
remembrance, discovery, and so on. It's important to understand the event's background in
order to provide reliable information.
2. Primary Sources
- Primary source, It is a personal account written by a person who witnessed or took part in the incident
firsthand. It also includes materials such as photos, voice and video recordings that document the
incident. Unpublished works by individuals, such as historical excavations and historical studies, make up
the majority of primary sources.
3. Secondary Sources
- Secondary sources are works that is analyzing, assessing or interpreting an historical event, era or
phenomenon, generally utilizing primary sources to do so. Secondary sources are used to get a different
viewpoint on a subject and typically include reviews of primary sources by experts, academicians, and
practitioners.
Primary Sources
- Oral histories
- Scrapbooks
Secondary Sources
- Dictionaries
- Textbooks
- Newspaper
DISCUSSION BOARD
- The raw materials of history are original documents and artifacts produced at the period under
research, which are referred to as primary sources. Secondary sources, on the other hand, are accounts
that retell, analyze, or view events from a distance in time or space.
- Since primary sources are considered contemporaneous records of an incident, they reveal important
facts that were personally written by someone who was present at the time of the event. A strong
secondary source uses primary sources as evidence here, too, to begin to take or create new
interpretations.
POST-COMPETENCY CHECKLIST
Primary Sources
- Photographs
- Speeches
- Oral histories
- Scrapbooks
- Diaries
- Journals
- Video recordings
- Letters
- Audio recordings
- Films
Secondary Sources
- Newspaper
- Essay
- Dictionaries
- Textbooks
- Journals
- Reviews
- Biographies
- Political commentary
- Dissertations
The value of primary sources lies in the fact that they introduce students to essential historical concepts.
The first student realizes that all recorded history is based on the author's understanding of historical
events. As a result, a student may understand the subjective essence of a historical account as they read
it. Aside from that, primary sources are typically described as firsthand data or facts. For me as a
student, it is a step forward to understand the backstory of Philippine history because it will aid in my
learning. It offer us insight into what our country been through in the last few decades or years. This
would be beneficial because reading increases our ability to think critically. It also improves the
awareness, skills, and analytical abilities of the readers. Primary sources are important in terms of
authenticity because the information comes directly from the person or group that experienced or
witnessed the past events. Secondary sources is important because it analyze or interpret all the
information from the primary sources and recreate the events more organized.
QUIZ 1
B. History D. Books
A. History C. Memory
B. Social Science D. Anthropology
B. Journals D. Pictures
A. Video C. Pictures
B. Textbook D. Diary
A. Replicas C. Biographies
B. Thesaurus D. Journal
A. It means looking at the roots of modern institutions, ideas, values and problems
his/her note.
A. Books C. Magazine
B. Diary D. Editorials
A. Textbooks C. Editorials
B. Magazine D. Journals
PRE-COMPETENCY CHECKLIST
1. What are the criteria in evaluating Primary Sources and Secondary Sources?
Primary Sources
DISCUSSION BOARD
1. What are the things to be considered as a primary source and secondary source?
- A primary source gives you direct access to the subject of your research. Secondary sources provide
second-hand information and commentary from other researchers. Primary Sources are considered as
contemporary accounts of an event, personally written or narrated by individual person who directly
experienced or participated in the said event. While Secondary Sources is usually contain analyses of
primary sources by experts, academicians, and professionals. These
2. How reliable the secondary source as a reference in describing the history of the Philippines?
- Secondary sources are research reports that use primary data to solve research problems, written for
scholarly and professional audiences. Their reliability and validity are open to question, and often they
do not provide exact information required by a sociologist.
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ACTIVITY 1.2
Instructions: Read the full transcript of the undelivered Arrival Speech of Senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.
and answer the following questions. The speech can be accessed at http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/
631394/ undelivered- speech-of-senator-benigno-s-aquino-jr . Write it on a separate piece of short bond
paper.
After reading the undelivered speech, I feel like there are still a lot of things we need to learn about his
time. In our past, I believe there is a lot of unspoken facts. Some of them have the ability to transform
our own values and experience on its head.
- Manuscript Speech
QUIZ 2
(10pts)
T 4. Garraghan (1969) emphasized that it is impossible for historians to avoid using secondary sources
due to difficulty in accessing primary sources
T 5. The genesis of the document it includes the situations and the authorities during the document’s
production;
T 6. The authorial authority of the document it refers to the relationship between the document’s
subject matter and its author.
T 8. The genealogy of the document it pertains to deducing meaning from the document.
T 9. The trustworthiness of the observer it refers to the author’s integrity whether he or she fabricates
or reports truthfully.
T 10. The genealogy of the document it refers to the development of the document. The document
may be original, a copy, or a copy of the copy.
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marriage and family, Community mores, values and beliefs, Community laws
Tagalogs have their own culture and religious activity, which is influenced by ancestors' conceptions of
marriage, such as the "pamamanhikan," which is still practiced today, as well as their beliefs, which are
exemplified by absolute reverence for the elders of their group. Tagalogs are music fans who don't mind
working long hours under the sun. for as long as
DISCUSSION BOARD
1. What are the traits of the Filipino that describe by Plasencia on his
writings?
estate have the right to trial by their peers and to those in the second to trial
by those in the first and the third have no right to trial at all.
- We known that Spain had three objectives in its policy toward the
Filipinos to Christianity.
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ACTIVITY 2.1
Instructions:
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QUIZ 3
1. The first reason why Plasencia’s Custom of the Tagalogs is important to the
grand narrative of Philippines History because of the life system of the Filipino
during the pre-hispanic period. According to him there were three castes
during that time witch are called the nobles or maharlica, the commoners or
namamahay are those commoners who are married and serve their master
whether he is datu or not with half their cultivated land. And the aliping sa
guiguiliur are those slaves that serve their master in his house and on his
cultivated lands and they can be sold. Knowing these facts opens up the idea
of the current Filipino people that the life system nowadays is not stricter
2. The second reason is he mentioned that the early Filipino people have “
Badhala” whom they worshiped with. Badhala is all powerful and maker of all
things priests were called catalonan where they fight different kinds of evil
have customs during the pre-hispanic period. One of the major example of
this is burial of a deceased person that will be buried beside in this house.
These awakens the current Filipino people what kind of religion they have and
priesthood, ect., but the reader should be warned that it is neither complete
nor always accurate. Without his accounts, the knowledge on the different
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Mindanao.
our country?
believe Jesus is God the second person of the Blessed trinity, but
Muslims do not and the God whom Muslim worship is the true God
people.
DISCUSSION BOARD
1. What are the reasons why Moros decided to make a piracy in Sulu Sea?
pay compensation for the loss of the traditional claims that many families in
Sulu Archipelago had to the pearl beds of the region, as stipulated by a law.
2. Why they are still on-going anger between Moro and Christians Majority?
the Moros. The conflict between these rebel groups and the Armed
Marcos’ regime.
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ACTIVITY 2.2
1. Sword is the most common weapon used in different kinds of war. In Moro
the significance of the sword to them is to defend themselves and their places
to all the intruders. They have different kind of sword like Barong is a thick,
2. The vessel is also one of the material cultures of Moro the pirate ships used
by the Moro’s include various designs like the paraw, pangayaw, garay and
lanong. The majority were wooden sailing galleys (lanong) about ninety feet
long with a beam of twenty feet. And also it’s used to travel to different places
3. Armor their armor was made from carabao horn or steel plates was
molded to fit the body and held together with chainmail it could deflect the
blows from a sword but it was useless against Spanish firearms. This armor
was being used to protect themselves and to lessen the impact of the slash of
4. Canon it used to destroy other warships and kill the enemy even it is far. It
5. Clothes, their clothes were very important because they use clothes not just
to cover their body but every clothes, they use there is a meaning of it. Slaves
can wear simple clothes and for men they are topless. And for high-rank
people they use to wear decent clothes and jewelries, and their clothes
QUIZ 4
Instructions: In July 2018, the historical signing into law of the long-awaited
Bangsamoro Organic Law finally took place. It has always been the goal of
every administration to put an end to the Moro conflict which has its origins in
the country’s colonial period. In 250-word essay, look into the identified
of the Sulu Sea, and analyze how the Bangsamoro Organic Law can possibly
address the issue. Write the essay on another paper. (20 pts)
because of the Bangsamoro organic law. It is a move the could end the
understand fully if how did the Moro community became in conflict with the
desire for increased levels of economic, political and cultural controls. Full out
ethnic war is unlikely since the ethnic groups have indicated acceptance of an
We know that the war and conflict in Mindanao is one of the country’s
biggest issues that roots back with their disputes over ancestral land and
home of the Muslims who fight for their self-determination and aspirations for
a peaceful and progressive region. The main purpose of this Organic Law is
people and the aspirations of Muslim Filipino and all indigenous cultural
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
A. History C. Memory
his/her note.
A. Books C. Magazine
B. Diary D. Editorials
B. History D. Books
A. Replicas C. Biographies
B. Thesaurus D. Journal
B 6. This is the primary and secondary source that where did it originate.
A. Authorship C. Credibility
B. Localization D. Integrity
A. Localization C. Date
B. Integrity D. Analysis
Philippines?
A. Zamboanga C. Basilan
A. Tausugs C. Waray
B. Bicolano D. Cebuano
(10pts)
the document.
T 10. The Ilanuns, Balangingi Samals, and Tausugs included in the natives
of Moro Region.
Instructions: Give 200 – 300 words of essay each item with knowledgeable
the Tagalog area. Filipinos are already civilized even before the spanish
colonization, as for his experiences and Observations.Although the original
Plasencia was still able to give knowledge about culture and the importance.
savior of our doomed souls from eternal hellfire. That’s why the Spaniards will
quote it forever as their prime authoritative source to show just how primitive
we were and how great their contribution was to our development.In the
their gods, devil's , witches, burials, and their beliefs on afterlife. Although
picture of how early Filipinos and live by their customs and traditions.
All these customs were practiced by the Tagalogs or the early Filipinos
even before the spaniards came into the philippines with this kind of fact. It
can be concluded that the early Filipinos have their own style of governing
Philippine Government forces. Why there still on-going struggle and terrorism
on Mindanao against the people of the Philippines and Government? How can
grave human rights violations committed against the people of the Mindanao.
Before we can attain the real peace and unity on Bangsamoro region first we
need to understand the history of the conflict and learn both side, in the case
from the very beginning. We know that the Bangsamoro struggle has been
labeled as one of the longest-running conflict in the world. Having this kind of
knowledge and clarity will not only bring to light certain misconceptions that
such a long running conflict can produce . It also can help us and inform
process.
Second read and follow the news and stay update because conflict
situations are not static phenomenons. They evolve, and the causes and
effect change over time. It is also important that we follow the news and read
the opinions of respected politicians, academics and other expert. Doing this
will not only keep us abreast of developments, but also help widen our
perspective. Third is discuss and then act., share our insights and learning to
friends and peers, correcting their misperceptions and helping them have a
more informed stand. The goal is two pronged to enable better understanding
of the issue at hand and increase the chance of finding concrete solution.
cultural exchange. And lastly start a peace project of your own or join one.