The document discusses the importance of reading long-form texts like novels and short stories compared to social media posts. It asks questions about how Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere affected the Philippines and if novels are still as important today. Students are tasked with mapping their family tree back to their great great grandparents and writing an essay imagining what life would have been like for one of their ancestors during the Philippine Revolution, considering whether they would have been Spanish, Chinese, Filipino, upper class or lower class.

1. Module 1
Reading and
Revolutionary
Jennifer C. Castro

2. What do you know about the Publication of Noli
Me Tangere and how it affected the Philippines.
Do you Think that the novels in the Philippines
Are as important as they used to be?
What is it about reading long texts such as short
stories that makes it different from reading
tweets and facebook status post?
What is the importance of literature for the
facebook generation

3. Map your family tree. Try to find out who your
relatives are as far back as your great great
grand father.
Essay
Imagine what the life of your ancestor would
have been during the Philippine Revolution.
Do you think he or she would have been
Spaniard , a Chinese or a Filipino. Would he /
she have been from the upper class or lower
class.