I was a professor of curriculum and instruction at East Tennessee State University and am now in emeritus status. Currently, I teach English composition part-time at George Mason University. I have taught in Cincinnati, Turkey, China and the Czech Republic.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
On the Road
The classroom part of our program has ended. Now, with just a week to go, we are taking our visitors on a tour of Philadelphia and Washington. On the way to our first destination-- Philadelphia-- we stopped at Gettysburg.
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