Kicking off your current events assignment
You and your partner will start your assignment by finding and analyzing a news story about a current event in Mexico.
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.
Guiding questions for current event analysis
Read and think about your news story using these guiding questions which will help you analyze the current event:
1. Summarize the news story
2. What groups or individuals are involved in this?
3. Are there any facts, details or statistics that you might want to use in your presentation?
4. After reading your article, what do you need to know more about to help you understand it and its context?
5. What larger topic(s) does this relate to?