B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Kindness
    Fragility
    humility

  2. Speaker 2


    Maturity
    Trend
    idiosyncrasy

  3. Speaker 3


    Amazement
    Beauty
    Fear

  4. Speaker 4


    Company
    Loss
    Happiness

  5. Speaker 5


    Sleep
    Failure
    Calm

  6. Speaker 6


    Customer service
    opportunism
    Delay

  7. Speaker 7


    Slavery
    Religion
    faithfulness

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. --Benjamin Franklin
    “Stand in as many pairs of shoes as you can manage, even ones you consider reprehensible or repulsive- even if it's just for a moment.” --— Ben Folds
    If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. --Alex Trebek

  2. Speaker 2


    “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” --— Benjamin Franklin
    Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. --John Lennon
    There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. --Fuchan Yuan

  3. Speaker 3


    “Society doesn’t have values. People have values.” --— Milton Friedman
    If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. --Benjamin Franklin
    "Some people pass through your life and you never think about them again. Some you think about and wonder what ever happened to them. Some you wonder if they ever wonder what happened to you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.” --— Todd W. Langen, writer for The Wonder Years

  4. Speaker 4


    "Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything!" --— Steve Martin
    In youth, we learn; in age, we understand --Marie von Ebner–Eschenbach
    It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. --Horace

  5. Speaker 5


    Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.
    The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. --Antisthenes
    “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” --— Mark Twain

  6. Speaker 6


    He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. --Benjamin Franklin
    Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. --Albert Einstein

  7. Speaker 7


    The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find your passion, figure out your purpose, and use that to help others. --Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. --Confucius
    Without music, life would be a mistake. --Friedrich Nietzsche

Elim 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
    He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas. --Benjamin Franklin
    I don’t feel that because I’m First Lady, I’m very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone. --Betty Ford

  2. Speaker 2


    “The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.” --— Isak Dinesen
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed. --David Hackworth

  3. Speaker 3


    A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early
    The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. --Aldous Huxley
    “Investing should be like watching paint dry or grass grow. If you want excitement … go to Las Vegas.” --— Nobel Prize economist Paul Samuelson

  4. Speaker 4


    “The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” --— Frédéric Bastiat
    It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. --Aldous Huxley
    Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile. --Laura Bush

  5. Speaker 5


    Give light and people will find the way. --Ella Baker
    I’ve seen what such feelings can do to a fully trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us. --Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian
    All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. --Alice Walker

  6. Speaker 6


    "The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.” --— R. Lee Ermey
    What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
    It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. --Benjamin Franklin

  7. Speaker 7


    It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. --Amy Tan
    “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” --— Robert A. Heinlein
    "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.” --— U.S. Army Corps of Engineers motto

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Forgetting a debt doesn’t mean it’s paid. --Irish proverb
    Where there’s a will, there’s a way
    Every step makes a footprint. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Still waters run deep.
    Flowers may bloom again; you're never young again. --Chinese Proverb
    The family that prays together stays together.

  3. Speaker 3


    Cleanliness is next to Godliness
    A drowning man will clutch a straw.
    As distance tests a horse's strength, time reveals a person's character. --Chinese Proverb

  4. Speaker 4


    A candle lights others and consumes itself. --Chinese Proverb
    While some are happy, some are anxious. --Chinese Proverb
    The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune. --Irish proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    If small holes aren't fixed, then big holes will bring hardship. --Chinese Proverb
    One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own. --Chinese Proverb
    The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

  6. Speaker 6


    Once you carry your own water, you’ll remember every drop. --African Proverb
    Flattery, like perfume, should be smelled but not swallowed.
    You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

  7. Speaker 7


    Let sleeping dogs lie.
    Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. --African Proverb
    Where one door shuts, another opens

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Temple
    Petrol station
    Pig

  2. Speaker 2


    Conditioner
    Ball
    Film

  3. Speaker 3


    Salt
    Sand
    Apple

  4. Speaker 4


    Painter
    Toy
    Dog

  5. Speaker 5


    Man
    Remote
    Street

  6. Speaker 6


    Koala
    Hammer
    Paper

  7. Speaker 7


    Laptop
    Turkey
    Ginger