{"id":32,"date":"2015-11-09T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-11-09T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T23:44:04","slug":"creative-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/2015\/11\/09\/creative-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got on a song parody kick a couple of summers ago. I drafted four full-length songs, I believe\u2014an astonishing number when I consider I hadn&#8217;t written more than a six-line parody of &#8220;Silver Bells&#8221; a decade before then. I showed one set of lyrics of personal relevance to a friendly colleague and he said, &#8220;Hey, this would be a great writing assignment!&#8221; Privately, I agreed, but with some trepidation. How would the students receive such a task? Would it be deemed inappropriate by any administrators? Would students struggle so much that they missed the fun of the enterprise?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering now if he ever went through with such an assignment. (I haven&#8217;t had the chance to ask.) I&#8217;m also wondering if any of my English Department colleagues have ever assigned song parody, or any kind of parody, as an exercise in the last five years. I haven&#8217;t seen any or heard about any parodies brought into the Writing Lab in all that time.<\/p>\n<p>If any instructors read this, please (!) let me know if you&#8217;ve ever given a parody exercise assignment, and tell me how it went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got on a song parody kick a couple of summers ago. I drafted four full-length songs, I believe\u2014an astonishing number when I consider I hadn&#8217;t written more than a six-line parody of &#8220;Silver Bells&#8221; a decade before then. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/2015\/11\/09\/creative-assignments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-lettersqueries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}