National Junior Honor Society Essay

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The National Junior Honor Society is a society for students who earn high grade point averages and are active participants in their community. This society looks for five qualities in a student which include: academics, character, citizenship, service, and leadership. All of these qualities are important in a student’s life. These qualities help define a person and show how active they are within their own community. Perhaps one of the most important qualities is academics. Academics play an important role in a person’s life. When you receive a challenging and rigorous education, you become prepared for challenges that you will face later on in your educational future. In addition, you develop study habits and life skills, such …show more content…

A person’s character is how someone acts, treats other people, and behaves around other people. A person who has good character is trustworthy, helpful, friendly, kind, cheerful, and encouraging. It is important for a National Junior Honor Society to have good character because they are constantly interacting with community members, teachers, and peers. I have been a good character by having good sportsmanship on the football and baseball fields, by setting a good example, by being fair with people, and by being someone people can come to when they need help. All in all, a person’s character is important, but character is nothing unless you are a good …show more content…

Service is a person giving up their free time to help the people or community around them. Participation in service activities is important for a person because the service allows them to give back to their community and it allows them to feel proud of what they have done. It is important for a community to have service projects because without them they may not improve as a society, service projects allow communities to improve themselves. I have been involved in a service project called seeds. Seeds is a service project through my church where we take kids ages three through six, and take them out of the mass. We take them to a side room, where we read them a story and try to teach the kids a lesson about the story in a way that they will understand. Then we complete a small craft and play games until the mass is over. To be successful with this service project and others, the people who run them must have some leadership

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