Announcement: Schedule of Classes and Things to Bring to School

UPDATE ( September 29)!!

Classes for all school levels for the whole of next week, Sept 28 - Oct. 3, 2009 have been suspended as per order by CHED and Mayor Lim. See Link for more details.

Also with the grave damage wrought by the Typhoon Ondoy to most residents of the metro, I am requesting all my students to kindly bring canned goods, rice, noodles and used clothing to school on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Kindly bring them over at E603, main building. Tell the secretary of the class to make a list of those who will donate the aforementioned materials.

You are all encouraged to help the victims of the typhoon. I'll keep you posted on how to send your donations on this site.

Thank you very much!

FYI!

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BUMP!

Discussion: I am keeping this post up. Leave your name and section for every post you make. Per post for this discussion gives you extra credit.

Thanks.

FYI!

Photos: Leadership Training in Antipolo

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Photos available on Mga Larawan ng Propesora

Enjoy!

Discussion: Adding the ninth ray to the Philippine flag

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What are your thoughts/ feelings about Richard Gordon's proposition of adding the ninth ray to our flag? Are you for or against the proposal? Why? There are no "right" or "wrong" answers.

Feel free to post either in English or Filipino, however, let's keep the discussion clean.

Thanks!

Prof. Hull

Guide Questions for Play Viewing

After watching the play, kindly chose which of the following you would like to do:

a. Poster Making
b. Poem
c. Reaction Paper

For (a) Poster making: you will have to come up with a poster (something that looks like a movie poster), with the image/s or caricature based from the play you've seen. You may use pencil or any medium that you prefer to use. Kindly use short bond paper or oslo paper. Be sure to add a punchline or a single sentence that would encapsulate the whole idea of the play. You may place the caption/ punchline either at the bottom of the poster or center (pleas see a movie poster and how the caption is placed). At the back of your paper, kindly give your explanation about the poster you would make.

For (b) Poem, write a poem either in English or Filipino.Maximum number of stanzas is 10, minimum is 5. You may opt to write it in free verse or standard, uniform rhythmic style. Place your poem on short bond paper, either hand written or typed written. You may create your own title for the poem or stick with the title of the play. Deadline of submission will be a week after viewing the play.

For (c) Reaction Paper, kindly place your answers for the following guide question on short bond paper short. You may use either English or Filipino; typed written or hand written.
- Is the title a good one or a poor one and why?
- List the main characters of the story. Give their symbolic representation.
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the film.
- If you were in a problem situation like one in the play/ movie, how would you have acted? Be sure to tell what the situation is.
- Did you like the way the story ended? Why or why not?


FYI!

Titles for Book Review

Ateneo de Manila University Press
Bellarmine Hall, ADMU Campus
Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights
1108 Quezon City
PHILIPPINES

• American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
  by Julian Go
• Applied Ethics in a World Church: The Padua Conference
  by Linda Hogan
• Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892
  by Raquel A.G. Reyes
• Transnationalizing Culture of Japan in Asia: Dramas, Musics, Arts and Agencies
  edited by Tito Genova Valiente and Hiroko Nagai
• Translation and Revolution: A Study of Jose Rizal's Guillermo Tell
  by Ramon Guillermo
• Give Jesus a Hand!
  Charismatic Christians: Populist Religion and Politics in the Philippines
  by Christl Kessler and Jürgen Rüland
• Re-Shaping the World: Philip II of Spain and His Time
  edited by Dámaso de Lario
• Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines
  by Patricia May B. Jurilla
• Why Counting Counts: A Study of Forms of Consciousness and Problems of Language in Noli me tangere and El filibusterismo
  by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
• The Waiter and the Fisherman and Other Essays in Literature and Culture
  by Miguel A. Bernad, S.J.
• An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines
  edited by Alfred W. McCoy
• Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes and the Production of Modern Knowledge
  by Resil B. Mojares
• Church Lands and Peasant Unrest in the Philippines
  by Michael J. Connolly, S.J.

· Communism in the Philippines: An Introduction
by Alfredo B. Saulo

· Contracting Colonialism
by Vicente L. Rafael

• The Cry of Balintawak: A Contrived Controversy (A Textual Analysis with Appended Documents)
  by Soledad Borromeo-Buehler
• The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines
  by Michael Salman
• Filipinos and their Revolution: Event, Discourse, and Historiography
  by Reynaldo C. Ileto
• Ilustrado Politics: Filipino Elite Responses to American Rule
  by Michael Cullinane
• Japan Views the Philippines, 1900-1944
  by Lydia Yu-Jose
• The Katipunan and the Revolution
  by Santiago V. Alvarez
• Kolonyal na Patakaran at ang Nagbabagong Kamalayang Filipino: Musika sa Publikong Paaralan sa Pilipinas, 1898-1935
  ni Raul C. Navarro
• The Making of a Nation: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Nationalism
  by John N. Schumacher, S.J.
• Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations
  by Alfred W. McCoy and Ed. C. de Jesus
• The Propaganda Movement, 1880-1895
  by John N. Schumacher, S.J.
• The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
  by Benedict Anderson
• Literature of Voice: Epics in the Philippines
  edited by Nicole Revel

Updated: Additional List of Books

Nation Aborted by Quibuyen
Barangay 16th Century by William Henry Scott
Assassinations and Conspiracies by Manuel Fernandez
The First Filipino by Leon Ma. Guerrero
Pasyon and Revolution by Ileto
Agos ng Kayumanggi by Jaime Veneracion

Attention: EE 4-1

We will have a make up class on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, 9:00-10:30AM, S605.

Attendance is a must!

atte

Announcement: For all of my classes- Individual Book Review

As for your Final Requirement, each will be tasked to write his/her book review. Titles of History/ Rizal books maybe posted on this site or at the classroom.

Instructions:

First Page- Title Page

-Use bond paper short, typed or hand written and may either use English or Filipino as medium.
- At the top center of your paper, write the following:


PUP (spelled out)
(your college)
(your department)
Sta. Mesa Manila

(several tabs)

This book review
(Title of the Book)
(followed by the publishing company and year it was published)

(several tabs)

is submitted to
(name of Professor)


(several tabs)
as partial fulfillment of the course requirements in (subject and subject code)


(several tabs)

submitted by:


Date
__
Second Page

Introduction

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Third Page
Table of contents

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Fourth page
Review proper

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The following questions are your review:

I. Introduction (of what the book is all about. Give a bird's eve view of what the book is all about)

II. Author and his/her thesis:

• Who is this author? Is he or she considered an expert in this topic?
• Does the author's background, time, or place affect the conclusions reached? Do you find an obvious bias?
• What is the author's point of view or frame of reference
• What is the author's major hypothesis; what's the purpose for writing this book? What are the most important pieces of evidence to support it?

III. Your views:

• What is the quality of the evidence -- convincing? adequate? are the sources recognized by others in the field?
• Are there other works on the same or a similar topic?
• Does any of the author's information (or conclusion) conflict with other books you've read, courses you've taken or just previous assumptions you had of the subject?
• How might you resolve any conflict?

IV. Recommendation:

• Were any previous ideas you had on this subject changed or abandoned due to this book? were they reinforced?
• Would you recommend this book or article to others? Why?

Announcement: No classes this coming Monday til the next!

NO CLASSES (SEPT. 7 and 21) Please read the link for further details and be guided as well with the university's announcements!

FYI!

Attention EE 4-1!

My apologies for missing the class. We will meet this Saturday for the make up class (11:00 A.M to about 1:00 P.M.)

Also, kindly answer the following questions in English. Place them on bond paper short, hand written. The first page of your paper should look like this:


(center) PUP (spelled out)
Your college
Sta. Mesa, Manila


(skip several lines)


Assignment 1 in Rizal (HS 110)

(skip several lines)

Your name
Course and Section

(skip some lines)


Submitted to
Prof. A. R. S. F. Hull


Date of submission

___________
Questions:

1. Compare and contrast the American and French Revolutions.

2. How significant is the Industrial Revolution to nations nearby where it all began? What problems were caused by the movement and solutions or ideologies that arose from it? Expound

3. Was there a unity of church and state? Base your answers on the events in Spain during the 19th century.

4. What other developments came about in abroad during the19th century? How significant were they to nations nearby and to Filipinos (if there were any effects at all)?

5. What is secularization movement? How did this lead to Filipinization?

6. How significant was the unity of church and the state in the Philippines during the 19th century?

The following are questions for 'The Count of Monte Cristo'
7. What did the rolling of the waves of the sea mean at the beginning of the movie?

8. Name at least 3 characters from Alexander's The Count of Monte Cristo and give their symbolic representation.


** Note: Write your reference materials (be it book or internet) at the last page of your paper. NO LIFTING of statements directly from your resources otherwise without much ado your paper will be marked 5.0.

Date of submission: Tuesday, Sept. 8.

As for your final requirement in my class: You will have to do an individual book review. Further instruction will be given later today or tomorrow.

Thanks!

FYI!

REM - pointers Rizal

a. Terms to define
b. RA 1425 (provision and people behind the law)
c. 19th century events abroad and in the Philippines (in particular, American and French Revolutions, GOMBURZA, Spanish Court Representation)
d. Rizal and his family
e. Rizal's education (from primary to tertiary in the Philippines)

Midterm exam: Wednesday, Sept. 9