B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 2
Speaker 1
Kindness
Fragility
humilitySpeaker 2
Maturity
Trend
idiosyncrasySpeaker 3
Amazement
Beauty
FearSpeaker 4
Company
Loss
HappinessSpeaker 5
Sleep
Failure
CalmSpeaker 6
Customer service
opportunism
DelaySpeaker 7
Slavery
Religion
faithfulness
Elim 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 TrebekSpeaker 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 YuanSpeaker 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 YearsSpeaker 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. --HoraceSpeaker 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 TwainSpeaker 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 EinsteinSpeaker 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
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 FordSpeaker 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 HackworthSpeaker 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 SamuelsonSpeaker 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 BushSpeaker 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 WalkerSpeaker 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 FranklinSpeaker 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
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 ProverbSpeaker 2
Still waters run deep.
Flowers may bloom again; you're never young again. --Chinese Proverb
The family that prays together stays together.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 ProverbSpeaker 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 proverbSpeaker 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 treeSpeaker 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 vinegarSpeaker 7
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. --African Proverb
Where one door shuts, another opens
Round 1
Speaker 1
Temple
Petrol station
PigSpeaker 2
Conditioner
Ball
FilmSpeaker 3
Salt
Sand
AppleSpeaker 4
Painter
Toy
DogSpeaker 5
Man
Remote
StreetSpeaker 6
Koala
Hammer
PaperSpeaker 7
Laptop
Turkey
Ginger