Rizal Life: An Educational Presentation on Jose Rizal

An educational presentation on the life of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal. It covers his birth, family background, childhood in Calamba, early education in Biñan, studies at Ateneo Municipal and University of Santo Tomas, journey to Spain, return to the Philippines, exile in Dapitan, and his final journey. The document is structured as a slide deck with sections on Rizal's identity, family…

This document is an educational slide presentation about the life of Jose Rizal, the Philippine national hero. It is intended for students, educators, or anyone studying Philippine history and Rizal's biography.

The presentation begins with Rizal's birth on June 19, 1861 in Calamba, Laguna, and his identity as Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda. It lists his parents Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso, and all eleven siblings including Saturnina, Paciano, and Narcisa.

It covers Rizal's childhood in Calamba where he was called Pepe, his early learning at home with his mother as first teacher, and his formal education in Biñan under Justiniano Aquino Cruz studying reading, writing, arithmetic, Spanish, Latin, and religion.

The presentation details Rizal's higher education at Ateneo Municipal de Manila where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1877, and at University of Santo Tomas where he studied Philosophy and Letters then Medicine. It describes his journey to Spain in 1882 to study at Universidad Central de Madrid.

Later sections cover Rizal's return to the Philippines after publishing Noli Me Tangere, his founding of the Liga Filipina in 1892, his arrest and deportation to Dapitan where he worked as physician, teacher, farmer, and scientist from 1892 to 1896, and his final journey through Fort Santiago.