Lesson 1

• • Is the key to understanding the different cultures or perspectives of small communities.
  • It represents the past events and experiences of single communities that live equally unique among the others.
  • The national history can be completely read and realized when there are collective recordings of the local history, which reflects vivid illustrations of the general course of the national history (Healey, 2008).

  Local History
• • The conclusion formed in the outcome from examining historical evidence is referred to as _____.

  Interpretation
• The goal of the local history is to allow the students to be directly engaged in doing it.
• • Represents an eyewitness account, allowing the historians to establish their own interpretations that can be referred to as secondary accounts.

  The Primary Source
• • Is a collection of small fragments of data planted down and organized by the observers, which interpreted the different facts on what happened on that certain events.

  History
• Why it Matters

  • Gives us a a whole perspective toward crucial events that took place in our communities.
  • It is also just as beneficial to see history in the small unrecognizable events of your family, friends, and locality.
  • Creates historical patterns that transform into detailed stories that tell the beginning of huge events and the lives of ordinary individuals.

  Local History
• It teaches about Community.

  • You will gain a better grasp for understanding the past and perceiving the present by learning more of your own community's origin.

  Local History
• Cotabato City was derived from Maguindanao word kuta wato and the Malay Bruneian word or Kota Batu, or City of Stone;


  Kota means city or fortress, and batu mean rock or stone.
• The importance of it in Philippine History

  • In relations to the creation of a national history cannot just be scorned upon.
  • The understanding and writing of the great events that happened cannot just be set aside.
  • The need to come up with local history is the awareness of the divergent and insufficient nature in the Philippine history.

  Local History