{"id":16627,"date":"2013-02-04T05:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=16627"},"modified":"2013-02-04T05:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:27:16","slug":"a-definition-assignment-from-a-super-bowl-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/a-definition-assignment-from-a-super-bowl-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"A Definition Assignment from a Super Bowl Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t blown away by the Super Bowl commercials this year. There were a couple that seemed cute to me. The GoDaddy commercials, as usual, annoyed me. WWE fan that I am, I enjoyed <a title=\"Milk Mustache Campaign Super Bowl XLVII TV Commercial (Extended Version)\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/lpOeHnotqDQ\">The Rock&#8217;s Milk commercial<\/a>, and like several of my friends, I teared up over the <a title=\"2013 Budweiser Super Bowl Ad \u2013 The Clydesdales: \" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/o2prAccclXs\">Clydesdale commercial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most immediately useful commercial however was this farmer commercial for Ram Trucks, which uses <a title=\"Paul Harvey's 1978 'So God Made a Farmer Speech'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/02\/paul-harveys-1978-so-god-made-a-farmer-speech\/272816\/\">Paul Harvey&#8217;s &#8220;So God Made a Farmer&#8221; speech<\/a> as its text:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AMpZ0TGjbWE\" height=\"276\" width=\"490\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nPlay this commercial in the classroom and talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/resource\/622\/01\/\" title=\"Writing Definitions, from the Purdue OWL\">writing extended definitions<\/a>. It&#8217;s a wonderful example and can inspire students to create their own video definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t blown away by the Super Bowl commercials this year. There were a couple that seemed cute to me. The GoDaddy commercials, as usual, annoyed me. WWE fan that I am, I enjoyed The Rock&#8217;s Milk commercial, and like several of my friends, I teared up over the Clydesdale commercial. The most immediately useful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,77],"tags":[355,356,357],"class_list":["post-16627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-activity","category-composition","tag-commercial","tag-definition","tag-super-bowl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-4kb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16628,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions\/16628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}