DSW Students Visit the McKeldin Library at the University Of Maryland
- DSW students learn to navigate the University of Maryland Research Portal during a workshop on research strategies at the McKeldin Library.
In connection with a project on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the origin of the term "Shell Shock," the AP (Leistungskurs) English class visited the graduate library at the University of Maryland, College Park, in order to participate in a research workshop. Librarians and graduate assistants helped the DSW students navigate the University's databases and research portal. The students were searching for secondary literature about poets such as Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Charles Sorley, Rupert Brooke, and Julian Grenfell in order find elements of battle trauma in their poetry and letters. The students were also looking for critical movie reviews about the film All Quiet on the Western Front, for official websites offering information and assistance to victims of PTSD, and for more recent accounts of battle trauma in relation to terrorist attacks and Iraq combat experience.
Visiting the Campus
The students also had a chance to visit the UM campus. The day began at the Stamp Student Union where the group posed with a statue of Muppets' creator and UM alumnus, Jim Henson. Later the students visited the University Starbucks and had lunch at the Student Union food court.
- The thirteenth graders pause with Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog in front of the Stamp Union on the University of Maryland College Park campus.
- German School students and Peter Dreher, DSW English Teacher, in front of the McKeldin Library with the UM mascot, the Terrapin Turtle, Testudo.