Dewey Decimal System

000-099 General Works
100-199 Philosophy
200-299 Religion
300-399 Social science
400-499 Language
500-599 Science
600-699 Technology
700-799 Arts and Recreation
800-899 Literature
900-999 History, Geography, Biography

Two Reading Techniques

1. Skimming
2. Scanning

OPAC

Online Public Access Catalog

Examples of Paraphrasing

1. "Love does not just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, made all the tim, made now"
* Intimacy is like a stone, it does not always there, made it now like a bread, remade all the time.

2. "Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. Its what you do for others"
*Attachment is nothing to do with what you obtain in life or achieve in life for yourself. Its what you've done for others.

3. "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you have preferred to talk"
*The prize that you get for your whole life is wisdom/ when you are allowed to talk.

Do You Know The Philippine National Hero?

Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda
A.K.A. Jose Rizal

June 19, 1861, Jose Rizal was born, Teodora Alonso and Francisco Mercado Rizal was the parents of Jose Rizal. His parents lived on the tenant land in Calamba,Laguna.

Rizal was under the tutorship of his mother Teodora Alonzo, who teach him the 3 R’s,At the age of three, Jose mastered the alphabet. He could read the Vulgate bible in spanish version after two years of tutoring him. He wrote a play in Tagalog when he was eight years old and this was presented at Calamba fiesta.


At the age of eleven Jose Rizal’s formal schooling started. Christian doctrine, Sacred history, Latin, Spanish, Greek, French, English, Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Universal history, Spanish history, Latin literature, rhetoric and poetics, Social ethics, Psychology, Logic and other branches of Philosophy was included subject in the curriculum of the five-year secondary course he took.