B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 1:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Apartment

    Sand

    Sofa

  2. Speaker 2


    Airport

    School

    Butter

  3. Speaker 3


    Cello

    Elephant

    Painter

  4. Speaker 4


    Spaghetti

    Boxers

    Mobile

  5. Speaker 5


    Sun

    Leggings

    Remote

  6. Speaker 6


    Xylophone

    Peacock

    Cheeks

  7. Speaker 7


    Mouth

    Pad

    London

Round 2 - 3:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Weakness

    Growth

    helplessness

  2. Speaker 2


    Inflation

    Principle

    Gossip

  3. Speaker 3


    Hurt

    Sacrifice

    Success

  4. Speaker 4


    Kindness

    Cleverness

    Death

  5. Speaker 5


    Irritation

    Courage

    Chaos

  6. Speaker 6


    Education

    Laughter

    Awareness

  7. Speaker 7


    Faith

    speculation

    Delight

Round 3 - 4:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is for.

    Clothes do not make a man.

    A fall into a ditch makes you wiser. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Small as it is, the sparrow has all the vital organs. --Chinese Proverb

    All monkeys cannot hang from the same branch. --African Proverb

    Never scald your lips with another man’s porridge. --Irish proverb

  3. Speaker 3


    What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?

    There's no time like the present.

    The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

  4. Speaker 4


    I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. --Chinese Proverb

    If you pick up one end of the stick you also pick up the other. --Ethiopian proverb

    While the cat’s away, the mice will play.

  5. Speaker 5


    True love means what’s mine is yours. --African Proverb

    Jack of all trades, master of none. --na

    It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. --Chinese Proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

    Do not follow a person who is running away. --Kenyan proverb

    Time is money.

  7. Speaker 7


    Be a mountain or lean on one. --Somali proverb

    You can’t always get what you want.

    It’s better to lose the battle and win the war.

Finals - 5:45pm

  1. Speaker 1


    A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you. --Ramsey Clark

    Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. --Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise. --Nancy Reagan

  2. Speaker 2


    “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” --— Alan Moore

    Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. --Yoko Ono

    Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. --Steve Jobs

  3. Speaker 3


    I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. --Alexander the Great

    How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. --Alice Walker

    "You can't put paradise in a tour book. You have to discover it." --— Elna Baker

  4. Speaker 4


    You become what you think about all day long. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    When I look at you, I can feel it. And I, I look at you and…I'm home --Finding Nemo

    "It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.” --— Mia Hamm

  5. Speaker 5


    People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. --John Maxwell

    "Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” --— Marcus Aurelius

    Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. --Albert Einstein

  6. Speaker 6


    Let love guide your actions --Brother Bear

    "It is not the critic who counts. [...] The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. [...] His place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. --— Theodore Roosevelt

    The only way to do great work is to love what you do. --Steve Jobs

  7. Speaker 7


    Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. --Benjamin Franklin

    In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it’s only good if they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. --Auliq Ice

    "I've got a dream too. But it's about singing and dancing and making people happy. That's the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share it with.” --— Kermit the Frog