Personal Narrative: My First Criminal Justice Class

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I took my first criminal justice class in my junior year of high school; my teacher was the parent of a friend of mine from middle school. Walking into the class I thought it would be another elective that sounded interesting enough, but subsequently ended up becoming my favorite class and the start of my criminal justice career. It was in this class that I created my first set of long-term goals and discovered my true purpose. On the first day of class I had not considered any colleges, career paths, or majors, mainly because I was told I had time and partly because my dreams were not supported. By the first week of taking Coach Joes class, I was aware of his passion for teaching and criminal justice. The way he described his own accomplishments and what it took to achieve them revealed that he had an inspiring story to tell; for a student that had a similar upbringing to his, I was interested in what insights he had to share. One thing that was instilled in me and all his students early on was that we needed to do what we needed to do so we could do what we wanted to do. …show more content…

This project was treated as a college assignment, and we were told to find an object that describes who we are. For my project, I chose my necklace which was valuable to me, gave my speech, and finished in under a minute. I put effort into the assignment, but I knew I could do better, and I thought it would be easier for me to pick a quick object and talk about it to receive my grade and move on, but I was surprised to see the grade I got on that project. When I brought it up to Coach Joe, he told me he knew what I submitted was not my best work, and he graded me

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