On March 14th, all year 6+7 students went to see the play “Virtual Heroes”. This play is about two students Rita and Kevin, who don’t like one another at first but get to know each other in an online game called “Fantasycraft”. There they are the hero and heroine that they are not (yet) in real life. Their avatars Sapphire and Byron teach them to be confident and fearless, and of course, they fall in love with one another. One of our students, Denisa, was even asked on stage and had to translate a German letter into English. She did […]
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On Friday evening before the Christmas holidays, we – the 7AB WPF group – Mrs. Dorn-Verlooy and our English native speaker, Tristan, all went to the first district for a show at Theatre Drachengasse. It was an improvised production by the English Lovers, a theatre group who improvise every show they put on. It was a great experience – unique! We were all very surprised how quickly the actors were able to put together the skits, just based on randomly chosen words and phrases from the audience. We really enjoyed going to the theatre and look forward to doing such […]
On Thursday, May 5th, we, the 6A and a part of the 6B went to Graz with Mrs. Gassner and Mrs. Baumann. We visited the Banksy exhibition. We had previously discussed the topic of graffiti in our English class and that’s why we decided to go to an exhibition of one of the most famous graffiti sprayers in the world. Banksy is not only world famous but also anonymous. Nobody knows his true identity, which makes the exhibition even more special. After the exhibition we took a short break in the city centre and then walked up the Schlossberg. There […]
One of the topics the students have dealt with this year in the English elective was horror fiction. We looked at this genre from various angles. One was that every student had to write their own horror stories. Then they created audio-files. Here you can listen to the students telling their own stories: Johanna’s horror story Iman’s horror story Ecem’s horror story Ajla’s horror story Vanessa and Ziad’s horror story
On June 24th, 2021, our English Elective Subject of nine students and Mrs. Gassner visited an Australian pub as a reward for working hard throughout the year. The location was hidden next to the Albertina. There, we had the pleasure to eat some crunchy insects, such as mealworms and grasshoppers. It turned out to be a test of courage and we had to overcome our fear and disgust towards these highly interesting snacks. The myth of mealworms tasting like peanuts turned out to be wrong for most of the electives. For the others it tasted like nothing and to our […]
We all know the beautiful, elegant side of Vienna. But did you know there is also a dark side that lies underneath?On Tuesday, Jan. 11th, we got introduced to it on our ghost tour with our tour guide Stefan and learned about many secrets we had never wished to be true.One of the disturbing stories we were told was about the catacombs underneath St Michael’s church. Only rich people had the privilege to get buried down there but at one point there was no more space for the corpses. So, the skulls and the big bones were put into the […]
Im Wahlpflichtfach Englisch hat sich die 6AB u.a. das Thema Manipulation ausgesucht. Die vielen Ebenen von Manipulation werfen viele interessante Fragen auf, die wir näher beleuchtet haben. Einen sozialpsychologischen Aspekt hat die 6AB an sich selbst getestet, indem sie das Line Experiment von Solomon Asch nachstellten. In diesem Experiment verbünden sich Teilnehmer*innen beim Benennen von falschen Linien, um eine*n weitere*n Kandidaten*in aus der Fassung zu bringen und – schlussendlich – zu einer falschen Antwort zu verleiten. An dieser Stelle ein großes Dankeschön an alle Versuchspersonen – fake and real! 😊 Unsere Ergebnisse haben wir mit den ursprünglichen Daten des Originalexperiments […]
Im Zuge des Themas Manipulation sind wir als Erstes dem Phänomen Fake News, deren inhaltliche Bedeutung sowie Einfluss auf historische Entwicklungen auf den Grund gegangen. Es stellt sich zum Beispiel die Frage, ob sich Augustus, bevor er römischer Kaiser wurde, einer manipulativen Strategie bedient hat, um Marc Aurel im Kampf um den Kaisertitel zu übertrumpfen. Oder können wir Augustus Darstellung von Marc Aurel als ignoranter, blinder Womanizer unter Kleopatras Liebesbann einfach so glauben? Wohl eher nicht 😊 Teil der Auseinandersetzung mit Fake News war auch das Entdecken der Rückwärtsbildersuche. Die Schüler*innen stellten sich der Herausforderung, eine übermittelte TikTok Nachricht auf […]
Which aspects contribute to a masculine demeanour? How do movie producers actively create masculine characters? These two questions guided our analysis of masculinity in movies. We started by asking ourselves: What’s the difference between sex, gender and sexuality? Because one thing is absolutely clear, the difference is significant! With the term sex we refer to the biological sex of a person, e.g. female and male, while the term gender describes the social construction of femininity and masculinity. What makes a woman*man seem feminine or masculine? Certain aspects of behaviour, clothing, manner of speaking, hobbies etc. are stereotypically associated with particular […]