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  B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Paper
    Cave
    Laptop

  2. Speaker 2


    Lamb
    Sister
    Doctor

  3. Speaker 3


    Wheelchair
    Trousers
    Toes

  4. Speaker 4


    Hotel
    Estate
    Sink

  5. Speaker 5


    Pen
    Bulb
    Frog

  6. Speaker 6


    Ball
    Country
    Restaurant

  7. Speaker 7


    Father
    Onion
    Bow

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Anxiety
    Contentment
    Poverty

  2. Speaker 2


    Frailty
    Intelligence
    Delay

  3. Speaker 3


    misery
    Love
    Growth

  4. Speaker 4


    stupidity
    Apprehension
    Despair

  5. Speaker 5


    memory
    Ability
    Compassion

  6. Speaker 6


    Sensitivity
    submission
    Death

  7. Speaker 7


    graciousness
    Dexterity
    Talent

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. --African Proverb
    The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
    A little impatience will spoil great plans. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Starlight shines far. --Chinese Proverb
    The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss. --Chinese Proverb
    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  3. Speaker 3


    Flowers may bloom again; you're never young again. --Chinese Proverb
    Nothing ventured, nothing gained
    Words must be weighed, not counted.

  4. Speaker 4


    It’s never too late to mend
    Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation. --Chinese Proverb
    Without standards, no boundaries are set. --Chinese Proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    A workman never blames his tools.
    A candle lights others and consumes itself. --Chinese Proverb
    A person leaves a reputation, as a swallow leaves its call. --Chinese Proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    Lend your money and lose your friend.
    Best things in life are free.
    It is crooked wood that shows the best sculptor. --African proverb

  7. Speaker 7


    Facts beat eloquence. --Chinese Proverb
    To kill two birds with one stone
    Tenacity and adversity are old foes. --Chinese Proverb

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    “I’m afraid most people choose political parties based on the same question they ask about regular parties: Who else is going to be there?” --— Tim Kreider
    Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying. --Fred Rogers
    "Luck is the residue of design.” --— Branch Rickey

  2. Speaker 2


    A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. --Aesop
    “Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.” --— Ron Paul
    The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up --Dumbo

  3. Speaker 3


    How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. --Anne Fran
    "Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.” --— Ray Bradbury
    When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' --Eleanor Roosevelt

  4. Speaker 4


    “I’m intellectually lazy. […] If you’re anything like me, you don’t make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, poring over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions; you listen to people who claim to know what they’re talking about—“experts”—and try to determine which of them more credible.” --— Tim Kreider
    “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” --— Aristotle
    Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. --George Washington

  5. Speaker 5


    He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. --Aldous Huxley
    The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

  6. Speaker 6


    Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. --Babe Ruth
    I can take any truth just don't lie to me. --Barbra Streisand
    "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.” --— Martin Luther King, jr.

  7. Speaker 7


    "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." --— Rosa Luxemburg
    From failure we learn, from success not so much --Meet the Robinsons
    The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. --Albert Einstein

Elim 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. --Herber Hoover
    Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. --Albert Einstein
    Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. --Barack Obama

  2. Speaker 2


    You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. --Shirley Chisholm
    The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
    You become what you think about all day long.

  3. Speaker 3


    The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness. --Fred Rogers
    Where words fail, music speaks. --Hans Christian Andersen
    "When you're a little kid, you're a little bit of everything: Artist, Scientist, Athlete, Scholar. Sometimes it seems like growing up is a process of giving those things up, one by one.” --— Todd W. Langen writer of The Wonder Years

  4. Speaker 4


    Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. --Confucius
    If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
    “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” --— Jan-Jacques Rousseau

  5. Speaker 5


    “A person who is demoralized is unable to accept true information.” --— Yuri Bezmenov
    "I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.” --— Dana Carvey
    I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change. --Marley Dias

  6. Speaker 6


    Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. --Geralt of Rivia
    There never was a good war or a bad peace. --Benjamin Franklin
    “Every time I judge someone else, I reveal an unhealed part of myself.” --— Anonymous

  7. Speaker 7


    “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.” --— Abraham Lincoln
    The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
    It’s easier to do a job right, than to explain why you didn’t. --Martin Van Buren