D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1: 8:00am

Speaker 1

Designer

Wallet

Boy

Speaker 2

Panda

Beans

Pig

Speaker 3

Sparrow

Museum

Stadium

Speaker 4

Ball

Stomach

Library

Speaker 5

Theater

Umbrella

Boots

Speaker 6

Laptop

Buffalo

Police station

Speaker 7

Ambulance

Surgeon

Governor

Round 2: 9:30am

Speaker 1

Talent

grace

omen

Speaker 2

Adventure

Philosophy

sophistication

Speaker 3

Right

Death

Friendship

Speaker 4

Argument

Peace

Loneliness

Speaker 5

Wit

Appetite

Goodness

Speaker 6

Ego

Weariness

Reality

Speaker 7

Uncertainty

misery

Charity

Round 3: 10:45am

Speaker 1

Eagles don’t catch flies.

Knowledge is power.

Money talks.

Speaker 2

Better to wear out rather rust out.

It takes two to tango.

No man is an island.

 

Speaker 3

When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt. --African Proverb

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

Willful waste makes woeful want.

Speaker 4

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. --Chinese Proverb

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Practice makes perfect

Speaker 5

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

A book is a pocket garden. --Chinese Proverb

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

Speaker 6

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. 

He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad man himself. --African proverb

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.  

Speaker 7

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

Cleanliness is next to Godliness  

The longest mile is the last mile home.  

Finals - 12:15pm

Speaker 1

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. --Fred Rogers

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. --Ronald Reagan

You shine like the light from the sun --The Lizzie McGuire Movie

Speaker 2

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. --Harvey Firestone

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life. --Aung San Suu Kyi

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 3

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. --Ayn Rand

Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin

“You have enemies? Good...That means at some point in your life you stood for something." --— Winston Churchill

Speaker 4

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. --Aristotle

Character is power. --Booker T. Washington

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 5

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” --— Pearl Strachan

“It is difficulties that show what men are.” --— Epictetus

The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. --Eric Hoffer

Speaker 6

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be. --Fred Rogers

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. --Bono

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 7

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended. --Benjamin Franklin

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. --Andrew Carnegie

You have to be secure in yourself to engage and challenge the mainstream. --Anne Poelina