Selfie Challenge

The weekly selfie challenge invloves students finding two sites of interest and, well, taking selfies once they have found them. Prizes at the end for the students who are able to track down the most.

Challenge #1: Theodor Körner Memorial
During our walk along the Elbe a couple of days after arriving we saw the Schiller-Körner Memorial in Loschwitz. The first selfie challenge was to find the second Theodor Körner memorial in Dresden, erected in 1871...

Hannah Shank, Jessica Hespen, Clayton Casper, Ben McDonough, and Andrew Hill

Lauren Williams (twice), Abby Leggett, and Alayna Bruney

Sarah Leach, Lauren Rust, Chrislyn Koch, and Sarah Blakeman

Challenge #2: The Buchstabenstein
While in Meissen we saw the Buchstabenstein or alphabet stone. The second challenge was to find the copy of the Meissen original in Dresden...

Chrislyn Koch, Sarah Leach, Lauren Rust, and Sarah Blakeman

Lauren Williams, Abby Leggett, Alayna Bruney

Andrew Hill, Jessica Hespen, Hannah Shank, Ben McDonough, and Kenji Gerhardt

Challenge #3:Monument to Electoral Prince Moritz
In class we talked about Dresden from the Middle Ages up through the end of the Thirty Years' War. Moritz, of course, was often mentioned as it was he who brought the Electorship to Dresden from Wittenberg. The third challenge was to find the Moritz memorial of 1555 showing Moritz passing the electoral sword on to his brother August.

Ben McDonough, Jessica Hespen, Andrew Hill, and Hannah Shank.

Sarah Leach, Sarah Blakeman, Chrislyn Koch, and Lauren Rust

Challenge #4: The Soviet Cemetary
While in Frieberg we visited a Soviet Cemetary, and we will be seeing another one in Weimar, but the challenge this time, was to find the cemetary in Dresden...

Cameron Mock, Ben McDonough, Jessica Hespen, Hannah Shank, and Andrew Hill.