rizal premid report #3

- one of Rizal’s contemporaries in the Ateneo, related an incident of Rizal’s schooldays in Ateneo which reveals hero’s resignation to pain and forgiveness. “Neither bitterness nor rancor towards the guilty party”

This anecdotes illustrates Rizal’s predilection to help the helpless at the risk of his own life

who was first discovered the poetic genius of her son, and it was also she who first encouraged him to write poems.

inspired Rizal to make full use of his God-given gift in poetry

1874- the first poem Rizal probably wrote during his days in Ateneo which was dedicated to his mother on her birthday; Rizal wrote it before he was 14 years old

- a tender poem in honor of Calamba, the hero’s natal town

Rizal showed the importance of religion in education

- Rizal believed in the significant role which education plays in the progress and welfare of a nation

- this martial poem describes the defeat and capture of Boabdil, last Moorish sultan of Granada

last Moorish sultan of Granada

A this poem relates the victorious entry of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel into Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain

- this poem praises Columbus, the discoverer of America

this poem relates how King Kohn II of Portugal missed fame and riches by his failure to finance the projected expedition of Columbus to the New World

- this is a legend in verse of the tragic life of Columbus

- this was the last poem written by Rizal in Ateneo; it is a poignant poem of farewell to his classmate

this poem was written in 1875 when Rizal was 14 years old; it was a brief ode

another religious poem which doesn’t have exact date when it was written

- a drama based on the prose story of St. Eustace which he wrote in poetic verses during the summer vacation of 1876 and finished it on June 2, 1876

The Board of Judges, composed of Spaniards, was impressed by Rizal’s poem and gave it the first prize
which consisted of a

• Rizal who was then nearly 16 years old, matriculated in the University of Santo Tomas, taking the course on Philosophy and Letters because (1) his father like it (2) he was “still uncertain as to what career to pursue”

RIZAL course in University of Santo Tomas

• -Rector of Ateneo, who had been good to him during his student days in that college, asking for advice on the choice of a career but unfortunately he was in Mindanao

Rizal's Ateneo vocational course leading to the title of

• Rizal excelled in all subjects in the surveying course in Ateneo, obtaining gold medals in

- the title was issued to Rizal for passing the final examination in the surveying course

• () of Manila- a society of literary men and artists, held a literary contest in the year 1879

- Rizal, who was then 18 years old, submitted this poem

-is an inspiring poem of flawless form.

Rizal beseeched the Filipino youth to rise from lethargy, to let genius fly swifter than the wind and descend with art and science to break the chains that have long bound the spirit of the people

- an allegorical drama written by Rizal which he entered in the literary contest of Artistic-Literary Lyceum in 1880 to commemorate the fourth centennial of the death of Cervantes

• a Spanish writer, who won the second prize

- a zarzuela which was staged by the Ateneans on December 8, 1880, on the occasion of the annual celebration of the Feats Day of the Immaculate Conception, Patroness of the Ateneo

• - a sonnet written by Rizal for the album of the Society of Sculptors; in this sonnet, he urged all Filipino artists to glorify the Philippines

• - Rizal composed a poem in 1879 which was declaimed by an Atenean, Manuel Fernandez, on the night of December 8, 1879, in honor of the Ateneo’s Patroness

• - Rizal composed a poem in 1881, as an expression of affection to Father Pablo Ramon

the Ateneo rector, who had been so kind and helpful to him

• - a pretty girl colegiala who skillfully played the harp at the Regalado home, whom Rizal was infatuated in Pakil

Chapter VI of Noli Me Tangere and Pagsanjan Falls in his travel diary , where he said that ____was the “greatest cascades I ever saw” but “not so beautiful nor fine as the falls at Los Baños, Pagsanjan”

• Rizal mentioned___(wherein the people dancing in the streets during the procession in honor of the miraculous Birhen Maria de los Dolores) in Chapter VI of Noli Me Tangere and Pagsanjan Falls in his travel diary (united States—Saturday, May 12, 1888), where he said that Niagara Falls was the “greatest cascades I ever saw” but “not so beautiful nor fine as the falls at Los Baños, Pagsanjan”

Rizal founded a secret society of Filipino students in University of Santo Tomas in 1880

• - members of the society whose after the valiant Hebrew general

• -Rizal’s cousin from Batangas who is the secretary of the society

-In Rizal’s novel,__, he described how the Filipino students were humiliated and insulted by their Dominican professors and how backward the method of instruction was, especially in the teaching of the natural sciences. He related in Chapter XIII, “The Class in Physics”