B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    Cello
    London
    Ambulance

  2. Speaker 2


    Brother
    Coffee
    Watermelon

  3. Speaker 3


    Stairs
    Remote
    Bakery

  4. Speaker 4


    Chair
    Cinema
    Music

  5. Speaker 5


    Razor
    Tunnel
    Knife

  6. Speaker 6


    Trench coat
    Wolf
    Eyes

  7. Speaker 7


    Detective
    Fox
    Television

Round 2 - 11:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    Fear
    speculation
    rumor

  2. Speaker 2


    Delight
    Skill
    faithfulness

  3. Speaker 3


    Argument
    Power
    hearsay

  4. Speaker 4


    favoritism
    Dedication
    Union

  5. Speaker 5


    Deceit
    Ego
    truth

  6. Speaker 6


    Hurt
    Kindness
    Slavery

  7. Speaker 7


    Defeat
    improvement
    Goodness

Round 3 - 1:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    It takes two to tango.
    Blessings come in disguise. --Chinese Proverb
    Cowards die many times before their deaths.

  2. Speaker 2


    If you carry the egg basket do not dance. --Ambede proverb
    You do not fatten a pig by weighing it.
    When in Rome, do as the Romans do

  3. Speaker 3


    Time and tide wait for no man
    One shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees
    However long the night, the dawn will break. --African Proverb

  4. Speaker 4


    There's no time like the present.
    Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.
    An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

  5. Speaker 5


    Practice makes perfect
    To get lost is to learn the way. --African Proverb
    Good medicine tastes bitter. --Chinese Proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    A man without a smiling face must not open shop. --Chinese Proverb
    Having a good discussion is like having riches. --African Proverb
    You reap what you sow.

  7. Speaker 7


    Hindsight is better than foresight.
    Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. --African Proverb
    If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Elim 1 - 3:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    "Great, we've made a great discovery!” --— Jonas Salk's response whenever he was told in the laboratory that something hadn't worked.
    Hope is a waking dream. --Aristotle
    Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. --Benjamin Franklin

  2. Speaker 2


    I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. --Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. --Andy Warhol
    You can’t tiptoe toward justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in. --Daniel José Older

  3. Speaker 3


    The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work
    In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.
    It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. --Albus Dumbledore

  4. Speaker 4


    There are more love songs than anything else. --Frank Zappa
    They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true
    Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. --Aldous Huxley

  5. Speaker 5


    “My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane.” --— David Sipress
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. --Alice Walker
    Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  6. Speaker 6


    We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. --Jackie Kennedy
    In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential.
    Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

  7. Speaker 7


    There's always a chance, Doctor, as long as one can think
    Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.
    Truth never damages a cause that is just. --Mahatma Gandhi

Elim 2 - 5:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Character is power. --Booker T. Washington
    It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
    Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. --Fred Rogers

  2. Speaker 2


    The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. --Jane Addams
    The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.
    Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it --Henry David Thoreau

  3. Speaker 3


    The only way to stop feeling afraid of something is to face it.
    “Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” --— Vince Lombardi
    We are always getting ready to live but never living

  4. Speaker 4


    It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma Bombeck
    It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
    Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals. --Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  5. Speaker 5


    I am the one who knocks. --Breaking Bad
    Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. --Mahatma Gandhi
    Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. --Benjamin Franklin

  6. Speaker 6


    “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” --— Elbert Hubbard
    Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
    "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” --— Bill Watterson

  7. Speaker 7


    Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. --Benjamin Franklin
    Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. --Fred Rogers
    If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.