B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Monkey
    Armchair
    Rice

  2. Speaker 2


    Koala
    Temple
    Flag

  3. Speaker 3


    Refrigerator
    Panda
    School

  4. Speaker 4


    Black
    Pharmacist
    Governor

  5. Speaker 5


    Scissors
    Drum
    Shampoo

  6. Speaker 6


    Composer
    Tail
    Man

  7. Speaker 7


    Forest
    Watch
    Milk

Round 2 - 9:30 a.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Relief
    Warmth
    Hope

  2. Speaker 2


    Brutality
    loyalty
    Justice

  3. Speaker 3


    Right
    Fashion
    favoritism

  4. Speaker 4


    Luck
    enhancement
    Adoration

  5. Speaker 5


    Childhood
    opportunism
    Bravery

  6. Speaker 6


    Unemployment
    Wit
    Riches

  7. Speaker 7


    helplessness
    Loss
    Religion

Round 3 - 1:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    Two wrongs don’t make a right
    Curiosity killed the cat
    In a group of many words, there is bound to be a mistake somewhere in them. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
    When it rains, it pours.
    The family that prays together stays together.

  3. Speaker 3


    What goes around comes around
    Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive. --Chinese Proverb
    Every horse thinks its own pack is heaviest.

  4. Speaker 4


    Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills. --Chinese Proverb
    A child is a child of everyone.
    A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

  5. Speaker 5


    Cleanliness is next to Godliness
    If you play with fire, you’ll get burned.
    The death of an elderly man is like a burning library. --Ivorian proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    Action speaks louder than words.
    Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.
    Repay good with good. --Chinese Proverb

  7. Speaker 7


    You cannot name a child that is not born. --African proverb
    Don’t cross the bridge till you come to it.
    A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood --Chinese Proverb

Elim 1 - 4:00 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. --Jim Hightower
    When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. --Alexis de Tocqueville
    It's not about money. It's about sending a message.

  2. Speaker 2


    Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.
    Applause waits on success. --Benjamin Franklin
    A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face

  3. Speaker 3


    A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. --Douglas MacArthur
    “You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.” --— Steven Soderbergh
    Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. --Cesar Chave

  4. Speaker 4


    In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln
    "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” --— Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi” Atlantic Monthly
    Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. --Jesse Jackson

  5. Speaker 5


    Leadership is influence. --John C. Maxwell
    I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy --Finding Nemo
    Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. --George Bernard Shaw

  6. Speaker 6


    Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. --Bar Refaeli
    “It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” --— Thomas Paine
    After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Round 4 - 7:30 p.m.

  1. Speaker 1


    The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - John F. Kennedy
    In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

  2. Speaker 2


    The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker
    The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu

  3. Speaker 3


    To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
    Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. - John Lennon

  4. Speaker 4


    The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates
    In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost
    It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

  5. Speaker 5


    Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama
    The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs
    To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde

  6. Speaker 6


    The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela
    The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
    You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

  7. Speaker 7


    It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius
    Believe you can and you’re halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt
    To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain