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  New Horizons Academy Course Catalog  WINTER TERM REGISTRATION CLOSED TERM IS IN SESSION Please read the entire page, including the complete list of courses, before making your selections.  SOME THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU SIGN UP  Minimum age for students: 18 years of age You must have at least a Basic level membership throughout the whole term in order to participate in New Horizons courses. You can get one for only $10 for a three month period. Before you join the academy for any of our courses, be sure you know how to navigate the WDC site and are familiar with creating static items, posting in forums, using the WDC e-mail, etc. Our instructors are here to teach writing not site navigation or how to create your static items for assignments. Based on comments from our graduates, each student should plan on devoting at least 3 hours a week to each lesson in each class. We allow our students a maximum of 2 course selections per term. No exceptions. Our courses are challenging and require your dedication and time to learn the material and complete the assignments. Keep this in mind when selecting your courses. We are here to help you comprehend the concepts and apply the techniques in a practical manner. We are not here to simply offer a grade. New Horizons Academy is based in the United States of America. If you are E.S.L. (English Second Language), it is important to note our grading process is based on American English grammar and punctuation. Some courses have prerequisites for admission. Make sure you meet the requirements before you sign up. In most courses, you are required to create "Static" items for your writing assignment and post them in a "Forum" by way of a "bitem." If this is a foreign language for you, please click on the link below to learn the process of creating a static item in bitem format.
For some of the courses, a waiting list is available for those who sign up after the course has filled. Those placed on the waiting list will be notified if an opening occurs within a prescribed time. New Horizon Academy individual course size, length, and content subject to change at the discretion of the individual instructor in consultation with administration. After you read the selections below you may move on to the Admissions. The link to the admissions' page is placed under the catalog course listings. COURSE LIST FOR WINTER TERM The Grammar Garden NEW INSTRUCTOR REGISTRATION CLOSED. The Grammar Garden takes us back to the individual components of a simple, complete sentence. The material focuses in-depth on nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. This is a beginning class in grammar only. We do not deal with compound sentences, complex sentences, or compound-complex sentences. The only type of phrase we deal with is the prepositional phrase. Each lesson includes definitions of the components, example sentences, and the practical application of each term listed above. Great as a refresher course or for the English as a second language learner. I suspect you have a number of grammar issues in your own writing. Bring your questions and issues to the lessons when they apply. All your questions will be answered; and you will finish this class with a stronger understanding of grammar in the world of writing. I use standard American English throughout this course, so if American English is not your first language, please let me know. I want each of you to feel comfortable as well as successful in this class.Limit of 10 students. No waiting list available. 7 week course Instructor: Madam Okira   From the Ground Up A beginner's poetry class designed for those with little to no poetry education or experience in writing poetry. REGISTRATION CLOSED. So, you want to write poetry? You sit down to the keyboard and pour out your heart in words stacked in lines with a few dashes or a few . . . and a lot of !!! all full of emotion and you label it "POEM." Not so fast. Your first poetic effort may actually turn out really well. Miracles happen every day.  More than likely, your poem will lack something. Learning the basics is always a good idea as with any skill or craft.Look at it this way: When you want to grow a garden, the first thing you have to do is prepare the ground. Weeds and grass have to be removed. The soil needs to be dug up and compost and fertilizer added. Then, it needs to be cultivated to make the soil nice and loose. All this, and you haven't planted one seed. Oh, and don't forget watering. Compare a poem to the vegetable you want to grow. It will be the result of all your preparation. You don't want it to be stunted and wimpy; you want it something you can be proud of producing. You must take the time to prepare the ground. That's what this course is all about. "From the Ground Up" is a poetry class for beginners who do not have any educational background in writing poetry or much experience and want to get started. By the end of the course, you won't be writing like Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson, but you will be familiar with some of the basic terminology and be able to produce a structurally good poem. Course size: 10 students Two slot waiting list available for those who sign up after the course is filled. Contact: Karen  6 week course Instructor: Karen Reeling in Your Readers NEW COURSE IS FULL. REGISTRATION CLOSED. Come join our film crew and learn about writing fiction. Reeling In Your Readers is an eight week course designed to give prose writers of all genres, a foundation for understanding the dynamics of basic Fiction Writing principles, as well as exercises and examples for doing so. Each week there will be a discussion, an exercise, and a writing assignment due. The lessons and assignments in this course are designed specifically for stronger beginning and intermediate writers.  Discussions are a vital part of this course. If you do not have the time or are not comfortable with actively participating in weekly, on-going forum discussions, please reconsider taking this class. We all have so much to teach each other, and, in this course, we do it in our discussion forums. Beginning writers, please contact course instructor, Katzendragonz  for individual evaluation before registering. Please Note: We will not be covering grammar, punctuation or basic writing skills.Limit of 10 students. Two slot waiting list available for those who sign up after the course is filled. Contact: Karen 8 week course Instructor: Katzendragonz Co-instructor: Beck Finally new computer!  The Exploratory Writing Workshop NEW COURSE IS FULL. REGISTRATION CLOSED. This workshop is not for beginners who have never written short fiction before.The purpose of this workshop is to give a student who has experience in writing shorter works some developmental time and teaching to get ready to write a larger one. This workshop has two phases. In the first, the student writes six vignettes, one per week using the provided learning prompts. In the second phase, the vignettes are used as a basis for extracting a story line and then expanding the story line to include the dramatic ingredients: character sketches and a synopsis of the vignettes that will be included in the larger work. Come to this workshop prepared to work but also to have fun. Limit of 7 students One slot waiting list available for those who sign up after the course is filled. Contact: Karen 8 week course Instructor: percy goodfellow The Punctuation Station NEW INSTRUCTOR COURSE IS FULL. REGISTRATION CLOSED. You are the CEO of punctuation marks whether you realize it or not. If you do not understand that, you may not be using punctuation to its fullest potential. Besides making your work look polished and grammatically correct, good punctuation shapes and colors your writing—it adds dimension. A good CEO knows how to place employees where they will be the most effective. Learn the specific jobs of each punctuation mark. Put them to work for you to make your writing say what you want it to say and how you want to say it. Carefully choosing which ones to use is the difference between good writing and powerful writing. If you are ready to take charge of punctuation and use it to help you write powerfully as well as grammatically correct, sign up for Punctuation Station. You will learn the proper usage of the period, question mark, exclamation mark, colon, semicolon, quotation marks, apostrophe, parentheses, hyphens, dashes, ellipsis dots and more! This course is exciting and can change the way you view punctuation. Come prepared to work, though. No one said being published would be easy, so if you are not really serious about learning how to effectively manage your team of punctuation marks, then leave the slot open for someone who is. Limit of 12 students No waiting list available. 6 week course Instructor: Pat ~Rising Star Sapphire Aude  Assistant: WinnieKay  Comma Sense COURSE IS FULL. REGISTRATION CLOSED. Do you have trouble deciding when to use a comma and when to avoid it? If you question yourself, or if others have remarked on your comma confusion, this is the class for you. Comma Sense is an exciting six-week course focusing on the crazy, squiggly punctuation mark that plagues us all. My lessons pinpoint the most recent rules for comma usage. I provide examples to help you understand each of the 30 comma-placement rules as they apply to specific sentence structures. Elementary rules of grammar are interwoven into each lesson in order for you to grasp the logic of comma application. Submission of weekly writing assignments and exercises are required to test your knowledge of the material presented. All homework is graded within a day or two and privately submitted to each student with an extensive explanation of any errors detected. In most cases, I will require you to revise your exercises and assignments until you get it right. This is how we learn! I have designed the course with an inherited sense of humor in a relaxed atmosphere of lighthearted interchange. Participation in weekly forum discussions is a REQUIRED activity and an important part of each lesson. This is an arduous course involving much work on your part. Since there is limited space for each term and no waiting list, please sign up for this class ONLY if you are willing to participate 100%. Come on in, and we will put that comma in its place!  Reference/Resource links and one-on-one help are provided in this class. Limit of 12 students. No waiting list available. 6 week course Instructor: WinnieKay Assistant: Pat ~Rising Star Sapphire Aude HERE IS WHERE YOU SIGN UP FOR ONE OF OUR COURSES Follow the bitem link below to choose your new course(s) & join the academy
The Following Courses Not Being Held During Winter Term But Will Return At Another Time The One Act Play--- A Drama Workshop This is a workshop type course designed to give students an opportunity to handle the components of a one act play. It is a series of 8 lessons that takes a sparse, given outline and expands it into a completed drama.  The student playwright will be required to write a comprehensive expanded outline, character sketches, monologues, dialog, rising action, a climax, and the trailing conclusion.The course is not about the History of Drama, Types of Drama, Screen Plays, Playwrights or any of the larger context of the craft....It is designed to give the student the feel of writing a stage play.....to push the pencil or pound the keys and become comfortable with how things fit and flow together. Prior writing skills contribute to the ease of the course and no doubt reflect on the end product. Some students will bring background and others will be newcomers looking for a feel and some experience. Everyone will get to write and that is what the course is all about. For a preview of the course to whet your appetite, check this out: "Introduction to the One Act Play"  Limit of 6 students. 8 week course Instructor: percy goodfellow Dynamic Reviewing Exciting review course - learn more than just reviewing! Reviewing is an important facet of the Writing.com experience. Not only does it help the author to better their work, it helps the reviewer to improve their own writing skills. But the benefit of reviewing is limited by the *quality* of the review. So while many people know how the basic techniques of writing a review, we'll explore the ins and outs of writing quality reviews. We'll learn what to look for while reading manuscripts, how to present constructive criticism, and how to write a review that will be truly beneficial to the author and reviewer alike. Limit of 10 students. 8 week course Instructor: ~AJ Lyle~  Spotlight on Character Prerequisite: Before registering for this course please complete the Spotlight on Character "Evaluation for Character Class Admission" survey form. Ms. Katz will review it and let you know if you qualify for the Spotlight course at this time. Thank you!Spotlight on Character is a seven week course designed to give prose writers of all genres, a foundation for understanding the dynamics of creating well-rounded characters, as well as exercises and examples for doing so. The first part of this course focuses on understanding what a well-rounded character is, and ways to begin developing them. The second part explores some of the methods used to reveal characters in our writing, including dialogue, description, setting, and action. Each week there will be a discussion, an exercise, and a writing assignment due. The lessons and assignments in this course are designed specifically for intermediate and advanced writers. Discussions are a vital part of this course. If you do not have the time or are not comfortable with actively participating in weekly, on-going forum discussions, please reconsider taking this class. We all have so much to teach each other, and, in this course, we do it in our discussion forums. Beginning writers, please contact course instructor, Katzendragonz for individual evaluation before registering. Please Note: We will not be covering grammar, punctuation or basic writing skills.Limit of 8 students. 7 week course Instructor: Katzendragonz The Journey - A Poetry Workshop Prerequisites: Poetry writing experience, at least 18 years of age, significant amount of poetry in your port for consideration of experience, and approval by Instructor. REQUEST A REVIEW of your writing from the instructor BEFORE you sign up. We need 10 brave poets in order to hold this workshop. "The Journey - A Poetry Workshop" is not about a destination, but a new way of seeing things. It does not include the nuts and bolts of poetry writing: meter, forms, etc. Rather, it will be a workshop requiring active participation in discussions, writing and sharing of poetry, and various other assignments which are geared towards looking into the three-dimensional aspects of the art of poetry writing: the poet, the reader, and the inspiration. This seven week workshop is not for the timid, nor is it for the critic. It is a workshop directed not at the "expert" poet but the "experienced" one who enjoys reading and considering the work of others and wants more insight into their own writing of poetry.  The Journey is very interactive; in fact, it depends on each person's willingness to get involved and stay involved for the entire seven weeks. There will be assignments where participants are paired to complete assignments. There will be poetry writing, reading, forum discussion, and the use of a poetry journal. The workshop will also include responding to (not reviewing) the poems of your fellow poets, including the instructor. We will travel on this Journey together.Limit of 10 students. . 7 week course Instructor: Karen Charter the Seas of WDC This class is a basic introduction to Writing.com. It will teach you some of the main things you will need to know to get around the wide world of Writing.com. There are so many places to go here that it can become very frustrating and confusing when you first start wanting to interact with the community. Let me take the stress away by showing you just what you need to know in order to get the most out of your experience! Through the course of this class we will get to know each other, meet some new and interesting people, interact with other members, and learn about all the exciting things there are to do on this wonderful site! Limit of 10 students. 8 week course Instructor: ~AJ Lyle~ NaNoWriMo & The 30-Day Novel NEW Open to active participants in National Novel Writing Month. All writing skill levels welcome. This class runs from October 1st through December 7th - This is not the normal New Horizons Academy term schedule. NaNoWriMo & The 30-Day Novel is a two month and one week course. It's an adventure designed to give participants of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) the planning, skills, and support to successfully write the first draft of a 50,000 word novel in the thirty days of November. The first part of this course, October, focuses on preparing for the NaNoWriMo experience and laying the building blocks for the novel that will be written. The second part, November, all students will participate in NaNoWriMo and write their novels, as well as interact with fellow novelists in the class, their home regions, and across the globe. The third part, first week in December, is a time of celebrating our success and sharing how the experience affected each writer and his/her writing skills. This is a non-graded class. Detailed evaluations of October's study assignments will be given. The novels themselves will not be evaluated by the course instructor, who will be participating in NaNoWriMo along side the students. The students' rewards for completing their novels will be their NaNoWriMo Winner's certificates. Please Note: Full participation in NaNoWriMo and participation in class discussions and on-line Write-Ins are mandatory. If you are not comfortable doing so, or do not have the time, please do not sign up for this class. For additional information on the class and National Novel Writing Month please contact course instructor, Katzendragonz .Course size: 20 October 1 - Dec. 7 Instructor: Katzendragonz Assistant: Beck Finally new computer! The following courses are not currently offered. Their return is undetermined. Tuesday Morning Cantos This class is perfect for the serious student interested in exploring the creative world of poetry. Both novice poets and those established in the genre will benefit from this course.  Whether you are already well versed in the genre, or unfamiliar with poetry's various components and forms, your copious poetry skills will grow. The format is designed to stimulate and improve your current skill level in the poetry genre. 8 week course Instructor: NOVAcatmando  Turning on the Light! Gaining New Inspiration and Breaking Up Writer's Block Prerequisites: Instructor Review and Recommendation This course is designed to give writers of all genres, including poetry, a selection of tools and exercises that will help them gain inspiration for new work and work in progress, as well as tips and ideas for breaking up writer's block. While this course is not geared to non-fiction, writers of non-fiction will find many of the tools and experiences useful in improving their writing. The lessons and assignments are designed specifically for intermediate and advanced writers. Beginning writers will not be turned away if they feel they are up to the challenge. (Beginning writers, please contact course instructor for individual evaluation before registering.) Please Note: We will not be covering grammar, punctuation, or basic writing skills. The first part of the course focuses on valuable writers' resources, methods of gaining inspiration in our writing, and blending fresh inspiration with basic writing tools to enrich plot, character, dialogue, and writing style. The second part explores methods and tools to break up writer's block and help keep it away. Each week there will be a discussion, a journal entry, and a writing assignment due. 8 week course Instructor: Katzendragonz Stocking the Tool Box for Poets (Basic Poetry Course) This is a eight-lesson workshop covering the basic elements of imagery, structure, and rhythm that every poet should understand to compose effective poetry. It is designed for beginners, but can also be a helpful refresher course for experienced poets. This workshop will help you transform your experiences, pathos, humor, and insights into poetry that will evoke distinct reactions from your readers. Through a stimulating mix of one-on-one instruction, hands-on writing assignments, and constructive feedback from your teacher and peers, you will learn to blend theme, imagery, rhythm and form into a powerful means of expression. We hope you'll have fun in the process. 8 week course Instructor: Dave For more information on who we are and how we came to be New Horizons Academy
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