Voice Thread Article

Bomar, S. (2009). A Pre-Reading VoiceThread: Death Comes for the Archbishop. Knowledge Quest, 37(4), 26-27. Retrieved September 11, 2009, from Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts database.

This article is a wonderful example of Voice Thread being used in a high school English classroom. Since our workshop had to focus on elementary uses of Voice Thread, I wanted to find an article that gave me a look at Voice Thread from a high school perspective. In the article, high school honors English teacher Shannon Bomar writes about using Voice Thread to introduce the novel Death Comes for the Archbishop. The novel, a long-standing component of her department’s junior level English curriculum, was dreaded by the students. She wanted to develop a pre-reading activity to get the students involved with the novel and cut down on the negativity toward it. She worked with the school’s media specialist to create a Voice Thread assignment that allowed the students to make their own Voice Threads concerning various topics that would come up while reading the novel. Since I teach AP Literature, I am always looking for ways to introduce novels and themes, and I hope to utilize a project similar to Bomar’s during the upcoming semester.