POL 264 Learning Task and Outcome - Paragons of Rizal’s Philosophy

Greetings, loyal Sons and Daughters of the Empire.  The Empress gets better as the days pass.  Hopefully, he will be with you by Friday this week or Monday next week.

For now, here are your Outcomes Based Education (OBE) Task.

Accomplishing the task requires that you read the writings of Rizal as listed in unit 2 of the course syllabus.

This is not group work, but requires the collaboration of the class to make it work.  Hence students will be graded individually.  Presidents, pls take charge,   See rubric below for the grading.

6 students will present per day starting on Wednesday (February 22, 2015).

Maximum of three (3) persons per philosophical concept listed below.

Each concept must have at least one person to speak about it.

How to do:  A paragon is a living example of an idea.  The Greeks once called them Personifications and were classified as gods.  For example, Kratos is power personified, while Nemesis is revenge personified.  If Revenge was a person, it would have been Nemesis and she thinks and acts, behaves thus. 

Paragons are descriptions of people who embody what it is to be, for example compassionate.  In this case, Mother Teresa can be considered as a Paragon of Compassion.  While Duterte can be thought of as Paragon of Severity, Miss Minchin is a Paragon of Envy, and Javert (of Les Miserables) is a Paragon of Righteousness.  They are like living symbols of those ideas.  The way they think and act can qualify as expressions of thy philosophy of those ideas.

Each student is to become Paragon of one of the ideas below.  They are but some of the ideas that are within the writings of Rizal.  You will come before the class to deliver a speech or monologue while looking how, for example, Freedom looks like.  Please, nothing as offensive and as basic as being nude for Freedom.  Remember, you are the Paragon or even Personification of that Idea.

Costumes must have come out of being practical or ingenious.  Borrowing is better than buying or renting.  Making one out of scraps is better than borrowing.  No costume should burden you financially.

Your speech will be 2-3 minutes.  Hence rehearse and practice, and reduce or add content if needed.

Your speech will discuss conceptually what the idea is.  It should be based on Rizal.  So if you are Freedom,  what is THE ESSENCE OF FREEDOM according to Rizal.  The voice must be in 1^st person. 

A sample –  "I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl in an old leathern bag; and might I have my wish I would desire that this house and all the people in it were turn’d to gold, that I might lock you up in my good chest. O, my sweet gold!…" (quote from Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) Doctor Faustus. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Scene VI, Verse 105).  This is just a sample.  make your own speech pattern.

NOTE: To discuss the CONCEPT of something is the process of abstraction.  Basically, it’s being able to point its essence – the elements that make it, and without these elements, the thing cannot be.   For example.  Answer, what are the things that makes Freedom as Freedom?  In this activity.  Make it, what are the things that make up Rizal’s idea of Freedom?

Assign someone to have your picture taken.  Make a good pose for the camera.  It will be included in the printout of your speech,

There will be minimal citations during delivery.  I will know and recognize what your talking about if you deliver it clearly.  Printout must have the source you used as basis – which is only the class readings.

List of Philosophical Concepts

1. Freedom
2. Liberty
3. Government
4. Corruption
5. Indolence
6. Diligence
7. Justice
8. Reason
9. Education
10. Womanhood
11. Religion
12. Civility
13. Patriotism
14. Self-righteousness

Rubric for Grading:

Print the Rubric in half (Crosswise) short bond paper.  Write your name and section at the back.

More than 3 glitches will round down the grade to 75.

Glitches: Unprepared speech, no costume, expensive costume, did not collaborate with class to make the presentation go well or even to make it better, presentation can be beaten by a 5^th graded, late submission of print-out, no picture.

Good luck, prepare well, and God bless.