B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1: 1:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Goodness
    2. Rhythm
    3. Happiness
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Disturbance
    2. Fragility
    3. grief
  3. Speaker 3


    1. helpfulness
    2. motivation
    3. Elegance
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Opinion
    2. Horror
    3. Opportunity
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Strength
    2. Appetite
    3. grace
  6. Speaker 6


    1. helplessness
    2. forgiveness
    3. Childhood
  7. Speaker 7


    1. reason
    2. humility
    3. Fiction

Round 2: 3:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Dolphin
    2. Salt
    3. Sink
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Boots
    2. Library
    3. Candy
  3. Speaker 3


    1. Surgeon
    2. Foot
    3. Arrow
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Blouse
    2. Wings
    3. Bakery
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Mobile
    2. Nose
    3. Wallet
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Chaise longue
    2. Sheep
    3. Museum
  7. Speaker 7


    1. Toy
    2. Blazer
    3. Sun

Round 3: 4:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The proof of pudding is in eating.
    2. The harder you work, the luckier you get.
    3. Where there’s smoke there’s fire
  2. Speaker 2


    1. If small holes aren't fixed, then big holes will bring hardship.  
    2. Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.  
    3. Strike while the iron is hot
  3. Speaker 3


    1. What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
    2. Learn to walk before you run.
    3. It’s easy to halve the potato where there’s love. 
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Silence is half consent.
    2. Facts beat eloquence. 
    3. With truth on your side, you can go anywhere; without truth, you can't take a tiny step.  
  5. Speaker 5


    1. No medicine exists that can cure hatred.  
    2. Like people, like priest.
    3. Those who just want speed don't succeed.  
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Seeing is different than being told.  
    2. When a twig grows hard, it is difficult to twist it.
    3. When children travel far, mothers worry.  
  7. Speaker 7


    1. An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
    2. Anger and madness are brothers.  
    3. A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.  

Finals: 5:45pm

  1. Speaker 1


      1. Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. --Kylo Ren, The Last Jedi
      2. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
      3. Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them --The Aristocats
  2. Speaker 2


      1. Some people are worth melting for --Olaf, Frozen
      2. It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. --Latin Proverb
      3. “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” --— Buddha
  3. Speaker 3


      1. 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
      2. It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls. --Fred Rogers
      3. The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded --Frozen
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults --Benjamin Franklin
    2. Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten --Lilo & Stitch
    3. Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. --Cesar Chave
  5. Speaker 5


      1. 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
      2. That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love. --Rose, The Last Jedi
      3. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. --Anton Chekhov
  6. Speaker 6


    1. “I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work.” --— Henry Ford
    2. "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
    3. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  7. Speaker 7


    1. “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” --— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
    2. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. --Pablo Casals
    3. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. --Aristotle