I. Read the statements below. Arrange the sequence of events to make a short autobiography of Dr. Jose
Rizal. Write A for the first event, B for the second and so on. Be guided by the language features
and/or signals used in each item.
1. In 1885 at the age of 24, he finished his course in Philosophy and Letters with a grade of
"Excellent."
Then, he entered a Jesuit-run Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1872 and obtained a bachelor's
degree with highest honors in 1876.
3. Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal was born in the town of Calamba, Laguna on 19th June 1861. The second
son and the seventh among the eleven children of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso
4. With his mother as his first teacher, he began his early education at home and continued in Biñan,
Laguna.
5. After studying in Ateneo, he studied medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop
the Filipino students were being discriminated by their Dominican tutors.​