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(How will I make the Activity
learners ready?
(How do I prepare the Activating prior
learners for the new knowledge (using
lesson?) puzzled pictures)
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Assessment
Knowledge
(What do we want students to know?-
refers to the facts and information that
the student acquires/evidence of what
they know)
Understanding(s)
(refers to big ideas and generalizations,
which may be assessed using the
indicators of understanding
Products/performances Quiz Point
(Transfer of Understanding) system
(refer to the real-life application of
understanding as evidenced by
student’s performance of authentic
tasks)
Assignment Reinforcing the day’s lesson Read another story of an
adventurous person.
Write 5 Facts and 5 Personal
recounts about him.
Knowledge
Attitude
Attachment no. 3
Carlos Peña Romulo once wrote that each of his careers “might have been lived in a different
country and a different age.” Soldier, journalist, educator, author, and diplomat, he was a
definitive world figure of the 20thcentury.
Romulo grew up in the town of Camiling in the province of Tarlac in northern Philippines. He
was born within the Spanish walled city of Intramuros, Manila, on January 14, 1898, at the
twilight of one colonial regime and the dawning of another. His father, Gregorio, fought in the
revolution for Philippine independence against Spain and, until surrender, America. The
bitterness of the conflicts left an impression on the young boy—marking “the beginnings of a
rebel,” as he called it—and he made a promise never to smile at an American soldier.
His levelheaded father eventually welcomed American schoolteachers who came to Tarlac to
teach English, however, becoming the first of the town’s elders to learn the language. Likewise,
the young Romulo’s hatred abated not only because of his father’s example but also because he
became friendly with an American sergeant.
His father’s dream of an independent and democratic Philippines lived on. One of the last to
take his oath of allegiance to America, the elder Romulo learned to accept the foreign power’s
rulings except—as the young Romulo recounts in his memoirs—“in the manner of the flag.”
“The American law says we cannot display our flag in any public place,” Gregorio Romulo told
his family. “Well, my bedroom is not a public place.”
His skill at using words made Romulo the logical choice to become “the Voice of Freedom,”
which broadcasted news of the war effort to Filipinos and Americans alike. Often contrary to
Japanese propaganda, Romulo’s reports earned the ire of the enemy, who put a price on his
head. But Romulo kept broadcasting until the Fall of Bataan, and abandoned his post only after
MacArthur’s strict orders to leave. He flew first to Australia, eventually ending up in the United
States in exile, leaving behind his wife and four sons.
In 1924 Romulo married Virginia Llamas, a local beauty titlist. They met at a picnic and they
married not long after being crowned King and Queen of a Manila carnival. She once
commented that she was the type of wife who preferred to glow “faintly in her husband’s
shadow,” to which one acquaintance quipped, “this didn’t leave much room to glow in”—a jab
at Romulo’s height.
Standing only 5’4” in his shoes, Romulo often made fun of his height. His book I Walked With
Heroes opens with the anecdote about being the newly elected president of the United Nations
—the first Asian to ever hold the post—and having to be “perched atop three thick New York
City telephone books” just to see and be seen by all the delegates below the podium. When
MacArthur fulfilled his promise to return to the Philippines, with Romulo at his side, it was
reported that the American general was wading in waist-deep water. One correspondent,
Walter Winchell, immediately wired back asking how Romulo could have waded in that depth
without drowning.