lit is important to know

1. CONTENT AND
CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF
SELECTED PRIMARY
SOURCES

2. HISTORICAL METHOD
Process of systematically examining an account of what has happened in
the past
uses Historical Criticism to evaluate Historical Sources
Economic history, Social history, Cultural history and Environmental history
Religious history, Medical history,Art history,Technological history, Linguistic
history and Military history

3. IMPORTANCE OF HISTORICAL METHOD
1. Finding Solutions for Contemporary Problems - Enables us to form
solutions to contemporary problems by seeking very similar information in the
present in to the past.
2. Understanding the trends for present and future - Throws light on the
trends today and gives prediction on what might happen.
3. Understanding importance and repercussions found in cultures -
Stresses the relative importance and the effects of the various interactions that
are to be found within all cultures.

4. 4. Reevaluation of presented historical data and
factoids – Every information presented before is reevaluated
in relation to selected hypotheses, theories, and generalizations
that aim to shed new light or verified information.

5. CONTENTVS CONTEXT
• Content Analysis– the subjects or topics covered in a book or document the matter dealt
with in a field of study
Main idea and Specific Information
• Context Analysis– the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a
specific passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect
• the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
• the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs
• Background Event, Background Author andType of source

6. CONTENT
•Is the information
logical?
CONTEXT
•Is the source
credible?

7. THE AUTHORS PERSPECTIVE
• Background – a short history about the author’s life
• Point-of-View – perspective used by the author that determines the approximate “distance” of
the author to the narrative he or she is writing
• Argument – also called purpose; the author’s stand or opinion in the narrative
• Attitude – almost similar to Argument, but reflects the mood more, which is observed on how
the author addressed his or her argument reflects the current situation and emotion of the author
in the material at the time it was written or made

8. SANTIAGOV.ALVAREZ
• SantiagoV.Alvarez
• FULL NAME : Santiago Álvarez yVirata
• TITLE / NICKNAME : Kidlat ng Apoy
• BIRTH DATE : July 25, 1872
• BIRTH PLACE : Imus, Cavite
• RELATIVE(S) : Mariano Álvarez (father, 1818–1924); Nicolasa Álvarez (néeVirata, mother);
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro (Supremo, cousin-in-law, 1863-1897); Gregoria Bonifacio (née de
Jesús, cousin, 1875-1943); Pascual Álvarez (cousin, 1861-1923)

9. • SPOUSE : Pat Granados
• CHILDREN: : Marta, Magdalena, Gabriel, Pacita, Numeriano, Egmidio, Rosendo,
Virginia,Amalia, and Fidel
• HIGHEST EDUCATION : College (Graduate degree) - Law
• POSITION : Delegado general (representative) and Commander of the
Katipunan – Cavite Sector; president of the Nacionalista party; presiding officer
during the TaftAdministration; leader of the Aglipayan church

10. • ACHIEVEMENT(S) : Hero of the Battle of Dalahican, Cavite; lawyer; founder of the
Nacionalista party; presiding officer of the Junta Magna de la Comisión de la Paz (Great
Council of the Peace Commission); one of the founders of the Philippine Independent
Church (Aglipayan); founder of the Makabuhay Association
• DATE of DEATH : October 30, 1930 (cause of death: paralysis)

11. •Known as kidlat ng apoy
•Dedicated and bravery as a commander of the
Battles of Cavite
•Democracy, equality rights

12. TEODORO A.AGONCILLO
• FULL NAME :Teodoro Agoncillo y Andal
• TITLE / NICKNAME : -
• BIRTH DATE : November 9, 1912
• BIRTH PLACE : Lemery, Batangas
• RELATIVE(S) : Pedro Agoncillo (father); Feliza Agoncillo (née
Andal); Gen.Abelardo Andal (cousin, head of the ROTC in UP)

13. • SPOUSE : -
• CHILDREN: : -
• HIGHEST EDUCATION : College (Graduate degree) - Philosophy
• POSITION : historian, poet, essayist, linguistic assistant, professor

14. • ACHIEVEMENT(S) : linguistic assistant and instructor at the Far Eastern University (FEU)
and the Manuel L. Quezon University; professor at the University of the Philippines;
author of several acclaimed history textbooks; member of the Order of National
Scientists in Philippine History; member of the National Historical Institute, Revolt of the
Masses: the Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan.
• DATE of DEATH : January 14, 1985 (cause of death: undisclosed)

15. • The revolt of the masses
• Interpret from Tejeros convention

16. • The Revolt of the Masses
• Internal Criticism- In his work he shows that the armed independence movement
“was initiated by laborers and artisans in Manila and that the upper classes were only
reluctantly drawn into the struggle. He did a great job in writing his work even if its just a
secondary source.
• External Criticism- I must say that Teodoro Agoncillo have a unique way of writing, he
write what happened during theTejeros Convention and his work tackled revolution,
nationalism and class struggle.

17. • “Katipunan and the Revolution: Memoirs of a General” by Santiago Alvarez
• Internal Criticism- Santiago Alvarez work is really reliable it is written clearly what happened
duringTejeros Convention which are the betrayal and how their plans against the Spanish
people it is more focused on the election and what happened during the election.
• External Criticism- Santiago Alvarez also have a unique way of writing whatever he write in
his work is purely truth because his work is written during that time and he was there so that
he really knows what happened. He’s not biased he write the betrayal by the propertied class,
the rise of a plebeian leader, and therevolt of the massesagainst Spain.

18. ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
FIRST VOYAGE OF
AROUND THE WORLD BY
MAGELLAN

19. • This book was taken from the chronicles of contemporary
voyagers and navigators of the 16th
century
• Wrote hid firsthand observation and general impressions in
the Far East
• Landrones Island “Island of theThieves”
• Presently known “Marianas Island”
• 18 soldiers in 1522 out 240
• Juan Sebastian El Cano

20. • Victoria, Concepcion, Santiago,Trinidad and San
Antonio
• Santiago lost at the sea
• San Antonio abandon on Africa
• Conception burn and lost
• Victoria
• April 27, 1521

21. • Pigafetta’s Travelogue is one of the most important primary sources
• Reveals a several insights in the character of Philippines during the precolonial period
• Frame of mind in the age exploration, which pervaded Europe in the 15th
and 16th
century.
• 1519-1522.

22. • He met Rajah Siagu and Rajah Calambu
• Magellan requested mass at Limasawa

23. MAGELLAN’S CROSS

24. ANALYSIS OF PIGAFFETA
•Most cited documents by historians
•Earliest detailed documentation
•Purest precolonial society