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Module 1 Assignment 1 Meaning of History

History is defined as a record of past events, especially in relation to a particular country or person. It involves studying important political, social, economic, and cultural developments over time. While we cannot change the past, studying history helps us understand how the present came to be and provides lessons that can guide our decisions in the future. The meaning and relevance of history is that it teaches us about inevitable changes in society through different perspectives over time and helps prevent repeating past mistakes.

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Module 1 Assignment 1 Meaning of History

History is defined as a record of past events, especially in relation to a particular country or person. It involves studying important political, social, economic, and cultural developments over time. While we cannot change the past, studying history helps us understand how the present came to be and provides lessons that can guide our decisions in the future. The meaning and relevance of history is that it teaches us about inevitable changes in society through different perspectives over time and helps prevent repeating past mistakes.

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Topic: Meaning and Relevance of History

ACTIVITY: MAKING MEANING


Directions: Define the word “HISTORY” using the dictionary, enumerate word synonyms and antonyms, cite meaning from historian or field expert, find
quote related to the meaning of the word. Then, make your own meaning based from the information gathered.

- A subject at school or university


- Record - The future
- Systematic description of past
- Chronicle - Forecast
events
- Account - Present
- Facts or events that is no longer - Narrative - Offing
relevant or important. - Report - Metaphor
- A branch of knowledge that - Memoir - Contemporary
records and explains past events - Background world
- An established record of past - Past - Allegory
events, political, social, economic, - experiences - Information
of a country or of the world. - antecedents Era

Charles R. Swindoll
John Jacob Anderson
We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that
"History is a narration of the events which have happened people act in a certain way. We cannot change the
among mankind, including an account of the rise and fall of inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string
nations, as well as of other great changes which have we have, and that is our attitude.
affected the political and social condition of the human
race."
Confucius

Voltaire Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every
time we fall.

"The first foundations of all history are the recitals of the


fathers to the children, transmitted afterward from one Nelson Mandela
generation to another; at their origin, they are at the very No country can really develop unless its citizens are
most probable, when they do not shock common sense, and educated.
they lose one degree of probability in each generation."
(The Philosophical Dictionary)

History is simply defined as time before the present that includes


important events which is considered special for some reason. It also
includes written reports, especially relating or connected with a particular
object, a person or a place. The history taught us that everything is
inevitable when it comes to different aspects, whether it be about social,
cultural, traditional, economics, science and religion.
References:

- Oxford Mini Dictionary & Thesaurus (2nd ed.). (2008).


New York, US: Oxford University Press.
- Oxford Learner’s Wordfinder Dictionary (1st ed.).
(1997). Great Clarendon Street, Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
- Webster’s Dictionary for Students (4th ed.). (2011).
Springfield, MA: Federal Street Press.
- Retrieved from:
https://zwww.powerthesaurus.org/history/antonyms
- Retrieved from:
https://www.brainyquote.com/

Suggested references and links for the topic Meaning and Relevance of
History
=

❖ Louis Gottschal, Understanding History (pp.41-61;117-170)


❖ Robert Partin (1969) The Meaning of History: “A Different Approach Entirely”, The Historian,
31:3, 431-435, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6563.1969.tb00355.x retrieved from
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-6563.1969.tb00355.x

SCORING RUBRICS FOR MAKING MEANING

CRITERION 4 6 8 10

1.CONTENT/ Most of the contents Some of the Most of the contents Contents and ideas are
IDEAS and ideas are not contents and ideas and ideas sufficient and sufficient and relevant
sufficient and are sufficient and relevant
relevant relevant
2.CITATION/ Cited one relevant Cited two relevant Cited three to four Cited at least five relevant
REFERENCES and reliable and reliable sources. relevant and reliable and reliable sources. All
resources. Some references are sources. Most references are cited using
cited using APA style APA style
references are cited
Most of the using APA style
references are not
cited using APA style

3.SYNTAX/ Most sentence There are many There are one or two No grammatical error
GRAMMAR structures are errors in sentence errors but do not
incorrect and wrong structures are interfere with the
use of words which evident message of the ideas.
affects the thoughts
of the sentence.

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