Comments on: Conundrum: Lolly, Lolly, Lolly

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:35:20 +0000

You have answered correctly!

And now the Conundrum is solved completely!

By: DeLisa

DeLisa — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:09:44 +0000

Mistress Quickly?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:29:53 +0000

Italy is correct, yes!

Autolycus doesn’t end in -ly, but I can give you credit for the Bishop of Ely and Christopher Sly. Great job!

Okay, I need one more character who ends in -ly.

By: DeLisa

DeLisa — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:43:42 +0000

Shakespearean characters: Autolycus, Bishop of Ely and Christopher Sly?

By: DeLisa

DeLisa — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:41:33 +0000

Italy is the country, no?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:52:51 +0000

Nicely done!

Let’s see… you got the conjunction, the holiday, the insect, and the other President.

Remaining are the country and three characters from Shakespeare.

By: Kenneth W. Davis

Kenneth W. Davis — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:01:41 +0000

While reading your post, I got this image of President Grant swatting a fly on the Fourth of July, but you may been wanting only official holiday names.

I was about to send you a conjunction ending in -ly, only I forgot what it was.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:03:24 +0000

Always great to hear from another Shakespeare Teacher. Welcome to the blog!

I like that activity too. It helps demystify Shakespeare, and what you get back is always fun to read.

All of your answers are good. That’s five down and eight to go!

By: erin

erin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:40:25 +0000

I recently discovered your blog, and I love it! I particularly loved your post last week about having kids annotate a song for an audience 400 years from now. I’ve done the other two activities you suggested, but this one never occurred to me, and I can’t wait to try it on my students! (I teach high school.)

parts of speech: noun-holly, verb-sully, adjective-friendly, no conjunction yet, interjection-golly

I’m totally drawing a blank on everything else except presidents – Lyndon Johnson.