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CANSCAIP MembersPat HancockAuthor
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Born: March 16, 1946. Hamilton, ON BiographyPat grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. After two years of Household Science at Macdonald Institute in Guelph, she returned to Hamilton to attend Teacher's College there. The next year she began teaching science at Cathedral Girls' High School. While teaching, she completed a B.A. at McMaster, and then added English courses to her teaching load that, over time, also included Physics and Biology. In 1971, she moved to Toronto with her husband, an analytical chemist from New Zealand, and taught science, chemistry and remedial English at De La Salle College. Pat retired from teaching in 1973 (returning for three years in the 1980s as a long-term occasional for the gifted program after completing Special Education, Part I at York University) to become a full-time parent. Reading to her three children sparked her interest in writing for young people. Since 1981, several of her short stories and articles have appeared in language arts readers and in magazines intended for teacher and/or students. In 1987, she began writing teacher's guides for many of Scholastic's Big Books, and in 1988 became a contributing editor of Scholastic Canada's teachers' magazine, Classroom. She was also project consultant for HarperCollins' Whole Language Discovery Boxes. Pat has taught "Writing for Children" continuing education courses at both the University of Toronto and Ryerson, and continues to do freelance writing, editing and consulting for the children's market. She served as President of CANSCAIP from 1991 to 1993. Published Works
Strange and Spooky Stories: A Haunted Canada Book (revised version of Strange and Spooky Stories), Scholastic Canada, 2005 Awards2004 Saskatchewan Silver Willow Award winner for Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories Other MembershipsTWUC, CCBC Available ForWorkshops for Teachers on "Short Story Writing in the Classroom" Workshops for junior, intermediate and senior level studnets on: "Improving Your Short Story Writing", "Writing Non-Fiction" and "Digging Up the Facts" (doing research). |
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