Divine Word College of Laoag

Laoag City, Ilocos Norte

ACTIVITY I
Submitted by:

April Jessa Mae S. Aguigam

(BSA - I B)

Submitted to:

Mr. Leomar Aguilar

(GERPH Adviser)

A.Y. 2020-2021
1. What does a historian do? As a student of history, what do you think will be your duties?

The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. - Theodore
Roosevelt
A historian is a Social Sciences specialist concentrating in the field of history. Their main
goal is to examine, research, evaluate, interpret, and record evidence from past human history.
Besides, historians are analyzing recorded historical records; this is where they get the
documentation and facts to back up their understanding of the incident or period in question.
They compile information from books, documents, and objects to be able to analyze the data.
There are many kinds of materials that might interest historians, ranging from past photos and
films to past government documents and even old records, diaries, and newspaper clippings.
Furthermore, they're bringing together all the details they collect to come up with some sort of
historical narrative. They will then answer the questions about what happened, who was
involved, why, and so on. Additionally, historians are digging for factors that can prove the
authenticity of historical records as well as evidence that is essential for the understanding of
history.
As a student of history, I have to discover about the history of our country so that I am
aware and I will be able to know how much we should treasure it so that the next generation will
be able to appreciate it too. This can be a big help for us to be more careful of our actions
because we already know what could be the possible consequences. We also need to value the
different materials that contain historical events wherein it could be useful for future purposes.
Furthermore, we need to give importance to what our heroes have done in the past for us
to have a world and country that we have today. These heroes should never be forgotten, so I
must do something so we will be reminded how much their sacrifices benefit us today, one thing
I know is to celebrated the National Heroes Day and pay tribute to them. Besides, even our hero's
bravery inspires me to become brave also to face any challenges that will come into my life.
Additionally, let us imbibe the different values of our ancestors like being resourceful, honest,
generous, etc.
In conclusion, history allows us to enhance a deeper understanding of the world in which
we live. Building knowledge and understanding of historical events and trends, particularly over
the last century, will allow us to develop a much greater awareness of current events today.
Sources:
https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/historian/
https://neuvoo.ca/neuvooPedia/en/historian/
https://www.bestdegreeprograms.org/faq/what-does-a-historian-do/
2. What does history take in the study of Philippine Society, Culture, and Identity?
History is an indicator of the things that are happening right now. The experience will
always give you a sense of how to manage and embrace the problems that are going on. History
is a strong guide that points to us to take the responsibility of the decisions we make today
politically, globally, and economically. Many human actions do not have an effect on us because
it happens in the past however, the effects can be felt.
We will realize our roots by knowing our history. This will give us a sense of our own
identity. Looking at our own lives, our personality appears to be made up of memories, past
values, etc. We recall encounters. We recall what we felt at a certain moment, and how things
changed over time. History allows us to better understand who we are and where we are headed
as a human being.
Furthermore, history gives us the key to our culture. We'd know how to preserve it, that
way. "Culture" may also mean common behaviors, ideals, perceptions and biases, and the rituals
and activities that reflect them, from mystical ideas to gender roles and racial hierarchies. In this
sense, our impulses, emotions, and behavior have a heritage that is capable of objectively
highlighting and analyzing cultural history. Cultural experience helps us to take a step back to
realize that some of the things we take for granted are extraordinary, and some of the things we
assumed were permanent and normal are dependent and subject to change.
History is also the base of our culture. By getting our interpretation of the things that
have happened in the past, we would know what to do if the same thing had happened in the
future. Learning from experience has generated mass outcomes. Every day we benefit from our
experience when managing our society's decisions to raise our expectations. What they did well,
as well as the errors they made. If we didn't learn from the mistakes of the previous century, we
could be in a worse position. Cases like deforestation, we should learn from the experience that
the impact can be felt and that society is affected. The key to a better future is to fix the mistake
of today.
In conclusion, history is crucial to know ourselves and what values we should follow to
know how we should act and behave in our society. Our actions will have its consequences
therefore we must be mindful in making decisions so that the same mistakes will not be repeated.
Let us be reminded that our past should be our lesson to do better and let us create our history
that will inspire the next generation.
Sources:
https://brainly.ph/question/1527282
https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/bethelhistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/why-study-history-
identity/amp/
http://www.shiphector.com/2018/07/19/how-does-history-impact-our-society/
3. How did the word "History" come about? Explain in etymology and evolution.

History in Etymology
The term history entered the English language in 1390, with the meaning of "relation of
incidents, story" via the Old French historie, from Latin historia, "narrative, account." This itself
was derived from the Ancient Greek ἱστορία, historía, meaning "a learning or knowing by
inquiry, history, record, narrative," from the verb ἱστορεῖν, historeîn, "to inquire."
This, in turn, was derived from ἵστωρ, hístōr ("wise man," "witness," or "judge"). Early
attestations of ἵστωρ are from the Homeric Hymns, Heraclitus, the Athenian ephebes' oath, and
from Biotic inscriptions (in a legal sense, either "judge" or "witness," or similar). The spirant is
problematic, and not present in cognate Greek eídomai ("to appear").
ἵστωρ is ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European language *wid-tor-, from the
root *weid- ("to know, to see"), also present in the English word wit, the Latin
words vision and video, the Sanskrit word veda the Welsh word gwynn, and the Slavic
word videte, as well as others. 'ἱστορία, historía, is an Ionic derivation of the word, which with
Ionic science and philosophy were spread first in Classical Greece and ultimately over all of
Hellenism.
In Middle English, the meaning was "story" in general. The restriction to the meaning
"record of past events" in the sense of Herodotus arises in the late fifteenth century (interestingly,
in German, this distinction was never made, and the modern German word "Geschichte" means
both history and story). A sense of "systematic account" without a reference to time in particular
was current in the sixteenth century, but is now obsolete. The adjective historical is attested from
1561 and historic from 1669. Historian in the sense of a "researcher of history" in a higher sense
than that of an annalist or chronicler, who merely record events as they occur, is attested from
1531.

Source: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/History
History in Evolution
The term “history” has evolved from an ancient Greek verb that means “to know,” says
the Oxford English Dictionary’s Philip Durkin. The Greek word “historia” originally meant
“inquiry”, the act of seeking knowledge, as well as the knowledge that results from inquiry. And
from there it’s a short jump to the accounts of events that a person might put together from
making inquiries — what we might call stories.
The words story and history share much of their lineage, and in previous eras, the overlap
between them was much messier than it is today. “That working out of distinction,” says Durkin,
“has taken centuries and centuries.” Today, we might think of the dividing line as the one
between fact and fiction. Stories are fanciful tales woven at bedtime, the plots of melodramatic
soap operas. That word can even be used to describe an outright lie. Histories, on the other hand,
are records of events. That word refers to all time preceding this very moment and everything
that really happened up to now.
As the linguistic divide has evolved since the Middle Ages, we have come to expect more
from history — that it be free from the flaws of viewpoint and selective memory that stories so
often contain. Yet it isn’t, humans being the imperfect and hierarchical creatures that they are
and history being something that is made rather than handed down from some omniscient scribe.
That is why feminists, for example, rejected the word history and championed the notion
of herstory during the 1970s, says Dictionary.com’s Jane Solomon, “to point out the fact that
history has mostly come from a male perspective.” The “his” in history has nothing,
linguistically, to do with the pronoun referring to a male person. And some critics pointed that
out back in the 1970s, saying that the invention of herstory showed ignorance about where the
word comes from. But sociolinguist Ben Zimmer says there’s evidence that the feminists knew
as much at the time. And more importantly, the fact that it sounds plausible that there would be a
link can still tell us something.

Source: https://time.com/4824551/history-word