B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1: 1:30pm
Speaker 1
- Goodness
- Rhythm
- Happiness
Speaker 2
- Disturbance
- Fragility
- grief
Speaker 3
- helpfulness
- motivation
- Elegance
Speaker 4
- Opinion
- Horror
- Opportunity
Speaker 5
- Strength
- Appetite
- grace
Speaker 6
- helplessness
- forgiveness
- Childhood
Speaker 7
- reason
- humility
- Fiction
Round 2: 3:00pm
Speaker 1
- Dolphin
- Salt
- Sink
Speaker 2
- Boots
- Library
- Candy
Speaker 3
- Surgeon
- Foot
- Arrow
Speaker 4
- Blouse
- Wings
- Bakery
Speaker 5
- Mobile
- Nose
- Wallet
Speaker 6
- Chaise longue
- Sheep
- Museum
Speaker 7
- Toy
- Blazer
- Sun
Round 3: 4:15pm
Speaker 1
- The proof of pudding is in eating.
- The harder you work, the luckier you get.
- Where there’s smoke there’s fire
Speaker 2
- If small holes aren't fixed, then big holes will bring hardship.
- Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
- Strike while the iron is hot
Speaker 3
- What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
- Learn to walk before you run.
- It’s easy to halve the potato where there’s love.
Speaker 4
- Silence is half consent.
- Facts beat eloquence.
- With truth on your side, you can go anywhere; without truth, you can't take a tiny step.
Speaker 5
- No medicine exists that can cure hatred.
- Like people, like priest.
- Those who just want speed don't succeed.
Speaker 6
- Seeing is different than being told.
- When a twig grows hard, it is difficult to twist it.
- When children travel far, mothers worry.
Speaker 7
- An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
- Anger and madness are brothers.
- A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Finals: 5:45pm
Speaker 1
- Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. --Kylo Ren, The Last Jedi
- Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them --The Aristocats
Speaker 2
- Some people are worth melting for --Olaf, Frozen
- It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. --Latin Proverb
- “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” --— Buddha
Speaker 3
- True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. --Bill Owens
- It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls. --Fred Rogers
- The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded --Frozen
Speaker 4
- Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults --Benjamin Franklin
- Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten --Lilo & Stitch
- Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. --Cesar Chave
Speaker 5
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. --Walter Lippman
- That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love. --Rose, The Last Jedi
- Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. --Anton Chekhov
Speaker 6
- “I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work.” --— Henry Ford
- "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
- To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaker 7
- “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” --— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
- It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. --Pablo Casals
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. --Aristotle