Kicking off your research project
You will start your research by finding a news story about a current event in Mexico. You'll connect this with a bigger theme in Mexican History for your first research paper.
What do you know about Mexico?
Here are some websites where you can get a brief overview of Mexico past and present. Bear in mind that these are all American or European so they will be looking at Mexico through a particular lens and will focus on stories that are connected to their home countries.
Finding your current event news story
Mexico News DailyMexico News Daily is an online source of Mexican news in English.
- Your teacher or the librarians will give you the log in information.
- Make sure you explore all the sections: News (on the home page), Business, Politics, Culture and so on.
- You can also search by keyword for older articles.
- Save a pdf of the articles you are working with.
Tools to help you
This slideshow gives you some information about how to analyze a current event story and shows you an example.