B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
- Bookcase
- Buckles
- Bear
Speaker 2
- Painter
- Fox
- Physician
Speaker 3
- Spoon
- Sky
- Bed
Speaker 4
- Bones
- Horn
- Pencil
Speaker 5
- Rainbow
- Lung
- Bucket
Speaker 6
- Garlic
- Dog
- Vest
Speaker 7
- Tomato
- Grandmother
- Forest
Round 2 - 9:30am
Speaker 1
- Justice
- Love
- Restoration
Speaker 2
- Freedom
- Appetite
- Weariness
Speaker 3
- Silliness
- Contentment
- Worry
Speaker 4
- Hope
- Speed
- Luxury
Speaker 5
- Annoyance
- Rumor
- Infatuation
Speaker 6
- Law
- Kindness
- Shock
Speaker 7
- Wit
- Childhood
- Advantage
Round 3 - 10:40am
Speaker 1
Walk the walk, talk the talk.
A thing begun is half done.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Speaker 2
A rolling stone gathers no moss
He who hesitates is lost.
The show must go on
Speaker 3
A good listener is a silent flatterer.
Honesty is the best policy.
If you can’t beat them, join them.
Speaker 4
If you snooze, you lose.
Watch the doughnut and not the hole
Look before you leap.
Speaker 5
Hard words break no bones.
The early bird gets the worm
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty! --Irish proverb
Speaker 6
Blood is thicker than water
A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd. --Chinese Proverb
When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger. --Zambian proverb
Speaker 7
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Measure twice, cut once.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Finals - noon
Speaker 1
- To love beauty is to see light. --Victor Hugo
- Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. --William James
- Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. --Dag Hammarskjold
Speaker 2
- In fair weather prepare for foul. --Thomas Fuller
- Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. --William Shakespeare
- A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy. --Suze Orman
Speaker 3
- In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself. --Bijou Phillips
- When you're eight years old nothing is your business. --Lenny Bruce
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. --James Madison
Speaker 4
- Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. --Henry Miller
- The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. --Dave Barry
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. --Paul Auster
Speaker 5
- Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. --Khalil Gibran
- No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. --Charles Caleb Colton
- If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams. --Joel McHale
Speaker 6
- It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. --Richard Steele
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. --Winston Churchill
- Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. --William Masters
Speaker 7
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. --Arthur Schopenhauer
- It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape. --Voltaire
- The only really happy folk are married women and single men. --H. L. Mencken