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ACTIVITY NO. 2
READING A PRIMARY SOURCE VS. A SECONDARY SOURCE

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Direction: Read the Katipunan and the Revolution: Memoirs of a General by Santiago Alvarez and The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan by
Teodoro Agoncillo and examine their respective claims about the Tejeros Convention through the matrix below. A credit of up to 10 points shall be allotted
for each item in each box, hence a total of 200 points for all.

A. TEST OF AUTHENTICITY

SOURCE OF Origin of the Event/Information Date of the Event/Information

Brief Description of the Source The Author/Eyewitness
HISTORY Narrated and Milieu

Katipunan and
the Revolution:
Memoirs of a
General

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The Revolt of the

Masses: The
Story of
Bonifacio and the
Katipunan

B. TEST OF CREDIBILITY

SOURCE OF
Objectives of the Event Arguments of the Sources Persons Involved in the Event Biases of the Author
HISTORY
According to Alvarez (1992), the The arguments were mostly to The main people involved in the The author seemed to objectively
Katipunan and devastating defeat of the tackle what kind of government event are Andres Bonifacio, Emilio state everything he witnesses in
the Revolution: Katipunan as the Magdalo they should install; the Supremo Aguinaldo, Santiago Alvarez or the event. When the eyewitnesses
Memoirs of a territories had been in the hands Bonifacio explained that the “K” in General Apoy and the rest of the revealed that the rumor of
General by the Spaniards after the Battle of the middle of the sun in the Magdalo and Magdiwang factions. Magdalo leaders having a
Salitran made the Magdalo & Katipunan flag used in the meeting was real, the Magdiwang
Magdiwang factions assembled. Revolution means Kalayaan or troops looked the other way, and
The objective was to discuss the Freedom. However, Mr. Severino the Author mentioned that if this
planned defenses of the rest of the de las Alas pointed out that the said news leaked out earlier, possible
province against the Spanish, and symbol did not show whether the annihilation could happen.
in order to strengthen this, a kind government was democratic or not,
of government must be hence an election occurred. The
established. The first election for a Supremo was warned about the
revolutionary government, which anomaly of the votes, yet he
now known as Tejeros ignored this remark. The meeting
Convention, took place in Tejeros, resulted as null and void as Mr.
a barrio of San Francisco de Daniel Tirona objected to the
Malabon. thought of Supremo as the
Secretary of the Interior.

The Revolt of the

Masses: The
Story of
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Bonifacio and the

Katipunan

C. FINDING / CONCLUSION

In your examination of the sources, what did you

find out? That we could only know and learn about our history through the sources and [biased] words by the
historians. On top of that, the revolution was not only a battle between the Spanish, but also between the
militants as well. Even the hunger for power exists in the time were people should be uniting against their
oppressors.

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