The poem "Hymn to Labor" celebrates the importance of labor for families, communities, and the nation through the perspectives of men, wives, maidens, and children. It expresses how labor sustains families and allows future generations to carry on the work. The hymn highlights that a person who struggles and works will be able to teach their offspring to maintain the values of labor.

1. HYMN TO LABOR
For the Motherland in war,
For the Motherland in peace,
Will the Filipino keep watch,
He will live until life will cease!

2. HYMN TO LABOR
MEN:
Now the East is glowing with light,
Go! To the field to till the land,
For the labor of man sustains
Fam’ly, home and Motherland.
Hard the land may turn to be,
Scorching the rays of the sun above. . .
For the country, wife and children
All will be easy to our love.

3. HYMN TO LABOR
(Chorus)
WIVES:
Go to work with spirits high,
For the wife keeps home faithfully,
Inculcates love in her children
For virtue, knowledge and country.
When the evening brings repose,
Oh returning joy awaits you,
And if fate is adverse, the wife,
Shall know the task to continue.

4. HYMN TO LABOR
(Chorus)
MAIDENS:
Hail! Hail! Praise to labor,
Of the country wealth and vigor!
For its brow serene’s exalted,
It’s her blood, life and ardor,
If some youth would show his love
Labor his faith will sustain:
Only a man who struggles and works
Will his offspring know to maintain.

5. HYMN TO LABOR
(Chorus)
CHILDREN:
Teach us ye the laborious work
To pursue your footsteps we wish,
For tomorrow when country calls us
We may be able your task to finish.
And on seeing us the elders will say:
“Look, they’re worthy of their sires of yore!
Incense does not honor the dead
As does a son with glory and valor.

7. BACKGROUND
• SA AKING MGA KABATA
WHAT • IMPORTANCE OF A LANGUAGE
• 1869
WHEN • RIZAL WAS AGED 8
• CALAMBA, LAGUNA
WHERE • Published in the book of Herminigildo Cruz

8. PHILIPPINE STATUS
7,107
ISLANDS
17 REGIONS
111 DIALECTS

9. ARCHIPELAGO
• -Numerous lands
• -Surrounded by bodies of
water
FRAGMENTED NATION
• -Islands are separated by
bodies of water
• - Regionalization
FILIPINOPEOPLE
• 98 million
• -Different cultures
• -Different dialects

10. EFFECT OF THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• ETHNOCENTRISM
• DISUNITED PEOPLE
• LANGUAGE & DIALECT differences that
resulted to:
• MISUNDERSTANDING
• LACK OF NATIONALISM

11. POEM
ANALYSIS

12. Sa Aking Mga Kababata
Kapagka ang baya'y sadyang umiibig
Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit,
Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit
Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid.

13. Sa Aking Mga Kababata
Pagka't ang salita'y isang kahatulan
Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharian,
At ang isang tao'y katulad, kabagay
Ng alin mang likha noong kalayaan.

14. Sa Aking Mga Kababata
Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita
Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda,
Kaya ang marapat pagyamaning kusa
Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala.

15. Sa Aking Mga Kababata
Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin
Sa Ingles, Kastila at salitang anghel,
Sapagka't ang Poong maalam tumingin
Ang siyang naggawad, nagbigay sa
atin.

16. Sa Aking Mga Kababata
Ang salita nati'y huwad din sa iba
Na may alfabeto at sariling letra,
Na kaya nawala'y dinatnan ng sigwa
Ang lunday sa lawa noong dakong una.

17. LEARNING CONCEPTS
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE AS A GIFT
AS A
As a vehicle to AS A
FREEDOM FINAL FROM
MIRROR
JUDGE GOD

18. IMPORTANCE OF A LANGUAGE
• Language is HUMAN SPEECH either
SPOKEN or WRITTEN and/or through
gestures and signs
• Most common system of communication
• Connects people

19. messages
*IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY THAT MATTERS…
IT IS H0W YOU SAY IT
*NO HUMAN CAN PERFECTLY CONTROL THE TONGUE

20. • YOUR SPEECH IS
ACTUALLY A WINDOW
INTO THE INNER
PERSON, REVEALING
WHO YOU REALLY ARE

21. • WORDS BEGIN AS THOUGHTS… IN ORDER
TO IMPROVE WHAT YOU SAY… YOU NEED TO
IMPROVE WHAT YOU THINK
• WHAT WE SAY AFFECTS OUR REPUTATION

22. Whoever knows not how to
Love his native tongue;
Is worse than any beast or evil
smelling fish;

23. SONG by FLORANTE
• Ako’y isang Pinoy , sa puso’t diwa
Pinoy na isinilang sa ating bansa
Ako’y hindi sanay sa wikang banyaga
Ako’y Pinoy na mayroong sariling wika
CHORUS
Wikang pambansa, ang gamit
Kong salita
Bayan kong sinilangan
Hangad ko lagi ang KALAYAAAN
Si Gat Jose Rizal, nu’oy nagwika
Siya ay nagpangaral sa ating bansa
ANG HINDI raw MAGMAHAL
SA SARILING WIKA AY HIGIT PA
SA AMOY NG MALANSANG ISDA

24. ISSUES & CONCERNS
• HOUSE BILL 4701
Provision :
MANDATORY USE OF ENGLISH as the medium of
instruction in all schools starting SY 2007-2008
Authors : Eduardo Gullas, Raul del Mar, Luis Villafuerte, Alipio Badelles

25. HOUSE BILL 4701
• Supersedes the BILINGUAL POLICY
• UP - Filipino as medium of instruction
• ELEM – Vernacular dialect (gr. 1 – 3)
• UC – adopts HB 4701
• Globally competitive
• English speaking zone

26. ACTIVITY
• JOSE RIZAL – LINGUIST & POLYGOT
• TRANSLATION ACTIVITY