D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Zebra
    Truck
    Boat

  2. Speaker 2


    Sparrow
    Smile
    Dress

  3. Speaker 3


    Sun
    Neck
    Hamburger

  4. Speaker 4


    Watch
    Bikini
    Mall

  5. Speaker 5


    Heart
    Shrimp
    Television

  6. Speaker 6


    Underwear
    Brain
    Spaghetti

  7. Speaker 7


    Hand
    Voice
    Carpet

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Anxiety
    Skill
    Annoyance

  2. Speaker 2


    Weariness
    Chaos
    Anger

  3. Speaker 3


    Despair
    artistry
    honor

  4. Speaker 4


    Disregard
    sophistication
    Wisdom

  5. Speaker 5


    Awareness
    misery
    Nap

  6. Speaker 6


    Growth
    Perseverance
    Patience

  7. Speaker 7


    parenthood
    Speed
    Strictness

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Do not follow a person who is running away. --Kenyan proverb
    Walk the walk, talk the talk.
    You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. --Irish proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive. --Chinese Proverb
    There's no such thing as bad publicity.
    An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure.

  3. Speaker 3


    Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden. --Irish proverb
    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
    The axe forgets but the tree remembers. --African Proverb

  4. Speaker 4


    Seeing is believing
    Failure is the mother of success. --Chinese Proverb
    It takes a village to raise a child.

  5. Speaker 5


    We desire to bequeath two things to our children. The first one is roots; the other one is wings.
    Don’t judge a book by its cover
    Justice delayed is justice denied.

  6. Speaker 6


    Seeing is different than being told. --African Proverb
    A happy occasion gladdens the spirit. --Chinese Proverb
    A rolling stone gathers no moss.

  7. Speaker 7


    Money talks.
    May the wind always be at your back. --Irish proverb
    Do as you would be done by.

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” --— Jacob Riis
    Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. --EM Forster
    “If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.” --— Steven Soderbergh

  2. Speaker 2


    I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. --Arthur Miller
    Being young and beautiful is not a crime, you know
    Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. --Benjamin Franklin

  3. Speaker 3


    The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. --Abraham Lincoln
    There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it --Brave
    Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. --Booker T. Washington

  4. Speaker 4


    When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. --Bayard Rustin
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
    If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.

  5. Speaker 5


    It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. --JK Rowling
    If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions. --Catherine Cook
    “Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.” --— Andy Weir

  6. Speaker 6


    When I look at you, I can feel it. And I, I look at you and…I'm home --Finding Nemo
    Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
    Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy Adams

  7. Speaker 7


    Believe you can and you're halfway there.
    Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost. --EW Hornung
    Truth never damages a cause that is just. --Mahatma Gandhi