B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    submission
    Confidence
    Fascination

  2. Speaker 2


    Goodness
    Disregard
    Opinion

  3. Speaker 3


    energy
    Skill
    Ability

  4. Speaker 4


    Artisty
    Determination
    Intelligence

  5. Speaker 5


    consideration
    Disappointment
    Power

  6. Speaker 6


    Wealth
    Defeat
    Tolerance

  7. Speaker 7


    thought
    Awe
    Brutality

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. --Andrew Carnegie
    One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. --John F. Kennedy
    Just Do It

  2. Speaker 2


    Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. --Abraham Lincoln
    Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
    A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  3. Speaker 3


    You are nothing. A scavenger girl is no match for the power in me. I am all the Sith. --Emperor Palpatine, The Rise of Skywalker
    Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. --Lao Tzu
    Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. --General George Patton

  4. Speaker 4


    You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. --George Clooney
    "Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” --— Pearl Strachan
    That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most

  5. Speaker 5


    "There will be many fire alarms in your life, but few fires.” --— Adam Carolla
    In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. --Benjamin Franklin
    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. --John F. Kennedy

  6. Speaker 6


    If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. --African Proverb
    Beauty and folly are old companions. --Benjamin Franklin
    Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. --Mahatma Gandhi

  7. Speaker 7


    “Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager." --— John Taylor Gatto
    A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. --Tywin Lannister
    People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. --John Maxwell

Elim 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. --Alexander Graham Bell
    Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. --Benjamin Franklin

  2. Speaker 2


    "The only way an artist can fail is to quit.” --— Thomas Hart Benton
    "The language of film is universal.” --— Intro to Movies
    "Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” --— James Russell Lowell

  3. Speaker 3


    "I've got a dream too. But it's about singing and dancing and making people happy. That's the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share it with.” --— Kermit the Frog
    "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
    Sometimes you try your hardest, but things don't work out the way you want them to --Lilo & Stitch

  4. Speaker 4


    Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. --George Washington
    I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. --Malala Yousafzai
    "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” --— Albert Einstein

  5. Speaker 5


    If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. --Alan Rickman
    Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. --Benjamin Franklin
    Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding. --Albert Einstein

  6. Speaker 6


    I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? --Benjamin Disraeli
    "I have only two passions: space exploration and hip-hop.” --— Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who is producing a single with rapper Snoop Dogg.
    “It is difficulties that show what men are.” --— Epictetus

  7. Speaker 7


    Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. --Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
    “There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.” --— Friedrich Hayek
    The wound is the place where the light enters you. --Rumi

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Vest
    Pad
    Stove

  2. Speaker 2


    Earrings
    Couch
    Alligator

  3. Speaker 3


    Mirror
    Sink
    Slippers

  4. Speaker 4


    School
    Gown
    Pharmacy

  5. Speaker 5


    Son
    Country
    Supermarket

  6. Speaker 6


    Bakery
    Leggings
    Cheese

  7. Speaker 7


    Vase
    Plane
    Church

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Small as it is, the sparrow has all the vital organs. --Chinese Proverb
    Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. --Chinese Proverb
    Having a good discussion is like having riches. --African Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. --African Proverb
    Repay good with good. --Chinese Proverb
    Too many cooks spoil the broth

  3. Speaker 3


    If you pick up one end of the stick you also pick up the other. --Ethiopian proverb
    If you carry the egg basket do not dance. --Ambede proverb
    Rome wasn’t built in a day

  4. Speaker 4


    Every family has its problems. --Chinese Proverb
    Facts beat eloquence. --Chinese Proverb
    A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

  5. Speaker 5


    Small is beautiful.
    A jack of all trades is master of none.
    A rich man’s joke is always funny.

  6. Speaker 6


    Even the best cooking pot will not produce food. --African proverb
    The show must go on
    Keep the general goal in sight while tackling daily tasks. --Chinese Proverb

  7. Speaker 7


    Like people, like priest.
    Lie down with dogs and you’ll rise with fleas. --Irish proverb
    Measure twice, cut once.