Proquest

I looked up “Normandy” and then “common core.” I wasn’t overly impressed with either of the results. I feel like I could have done as well with Google. I did like that the results were recent, from 2013. I liked that on the side I could divide my search result by the type of article I was looking for. Even when I clicked on newspapers, in my “common core” search, I was still overwhelmed with options. The suggested subjects box was of no help. Their suggestions were in no way related to what I was looking for when I searched “common core.” The suggestion box when I searched “Normandy” was more helpful. Publications- When I looked at the publications tab I had no idea where to begin. If you don’t know what to search for (when you are looking up the title of something) how do you know what to search for? I scrolled through the first couple of pages of periodical titles. I decided to type in “history.” This brought up several good magazines, all fairly recent. But I think that it would be hard to search a specific topic here unless there is an entire magazine dedicated to that topic. ~Common Core~ This could be easily linked to common core reading standards. Students could use this to find an article relating to the classroom topic. Journal articles could be used to “cite specific evidence.” This is a repeating theme in the common core standards.