美國語文讀本5

《美國語文讀本5》是上海三聯書店出版的圖書，作者是威廉·麥加菲。該書要介紹了狄更斯、華盛頓、歐文、愛默生等名家的詩歌和散文，每篇文章前還增加了作者簡介與相關背景知識，內容豐富而有一定深度。

基本介紹

• 書名：美國語文讀本5
• 頁數：296頁
• 出版社：上海三聯書店
• 開本：16

圖書信息

外文書名: The Eclectic Readers

正文語種: 簡體中文, 英語

ISBN: 7542634119, 9787542634115

條形碼: 9787542634115

尺寸: 22.2 x 14.8 x 2.4 cm

重量: 522 g

作者簡介

作者: (美國) 威廉?H?麥加菲

威廉?H?麥加菲，美國著名教育家。1800年出生於賓夕法尼亞州，1826年畢業於華盛頓大學傑斐遜學院。在數十年教育生涯中，他曾擔任過邁阿密大學語言學教授，俄亥俄大學校長。自1845年開始任維吉尼亞大學道德哲學教授。他還幫助組建了俄亥俄州公立學校體系。

早在19世紀初期，麥加菲就意識到，應該給那些孤獨的墾荒者和歐洲移民的後代提供普遍的教育，於是他利用自己作為演講家與教育工作者的天賦，開始為孩子們編寫系列教材。這套教材共7冊，從學齡前至第6年級。他前後花費了20多年的時間才完成全套教材的編寫。這套教材面世後就被美國很多學校選為課本。在75年間銷量高達1.22億，直到今天仍以各種版本流行於西方，被美國《出版周刊》評為“人類出版史上第三大暢銷書”，對美國青年的心靈塑造與道德培養產生了史無前例的影響。

William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American professor and college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, one of the nation's first and most widely used series of textbooks. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.

He was born the son of Alexander and Anna (Holmes) McGuffey near Claysville in Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is 45 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1802 the McGuffey family moved further out into the frontier at Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He attended country school, and after receiving special instruction at Youngstown, he attended Greersburg Academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he attended and graduated from Pennsylvania's Washington College, where he became an instructor.

He was close friends with Washington College's President Andrew Wylie and lived in Wylie's house for a time; they often would walk the 3 miles to Washington College together.

McGuffey's house in OxfordMcGuffey left Washington College in 1826 to become a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A year later in 1827, he was married to Harriet Spinning of Dayton, Ohio, with whom he had five children. In 1829, he was ordained at Bethel Chapel as a minister in the Presbyterian Church. It was in Oxford that he created the most important contribution of his life: The McGuffey Readers. His books sold over 122 million copies. He was very fond of teaching and children as he geared the books toward a younger audience.

In 1836, he left Miami to become president of Cincinnati College, where he also served as a distinguished teacher and lecturer. He left Cincinnati in 1839 to become the 4th president of Ohio University, which he left in 1843 to become president of Woodward College (really a secondary school) in Cincinnati.

In 1845, McGuffey moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where he became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. A year after his first wife Harriet died in 1850, he married Miss Laura Howard, daughter of Dean Howard of the University of Virginia, in 1851. McGuffey is buried in the university burial ground, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The School of Education at Miami University is housed in McGuffey Hall which is named for him and his home in Oxford is a National Historic Landmark offering tours on weekdays.

內容簡介

《美國語文讀本5(美國原版經典語文課本)》：這套讀本的英文原版共分七級，包括啟蒙讀本和第1-6級。考慮到啟蒙讀本與第一級篇幅都較少，難易程度也很接近，於是將之合併為第1冊，其餘2-6級與英文原版相同。這樣國內出版的這套讀本共包括6冊。

《美國語文讀本5(美國原版經典語文課本)》主要介紹了狄更斯、華盛頓?歐文、愛默生等名家的詩歌和散文，每篇文章前還增加了作者簡介與相關背景知識，內容豐富而有一定深度。

This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts, originally prepared by William Holmes who was a professor at Miami University McGuffey, had a profound influence on public education in the United States. The eclectic readers, meaning that the selections were chosen from a number of sources, were considered remarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influence upon literary tastes in the United States more than any other book, excluding the Bible.

It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark. McGuffey's Readers are still in use today in some school systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes.

The fifth reader was designed for elocutionary exercises to increase articulation, inflection, pitch, accent, rate, emphasis and gesture. It contained poetry and prose by Sigourney, Montgomery, Addison, Irving, Young and Byron.

目錄

LESSON 1 THE GOOD READER

LESSON 2 THE BLUEBELL

LESSON 3 THE GENTLE HAND

LESSON 4 THE GRANDFATHER

LESSON 5 A BOY ON A FARM

LESSON 6 THE SINGING LESSON

LESSON 7 DO NOT MEDDLE

LESSON 8 WORK

LESSON 9 THE MANIAC

LESSON 10 ROBIN REDBREAST

LESSON 11 THE FISH I DIDN’T CATCH

LESSON 12 IT SNOWS

LESSON 13 RESPECT FOR THE SABBATH REWARDED

LESSON 14 THE SANDS O’ DEE

LESSON 15 SELECT PARAGRAPHS

LESSON 16 THE CORN SONG

LESSON 17 THE VENOMOUS WORM

LESSON 18 THE FESTAL BOARD

LESSON 19 HOW TO TELL BAD NEWS

LESSON 20 THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM

LESSON 21 “I PITY THEM”

LESSON 22 AN ELEGY ON MADAM BLAIZE

LESSON 23 KING CHARLES II AND WILLIAM PENN

LESSON 24 WHAT I LIVE FOR

LESSON 25 THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKEN

LESSON 26 ABOU BEN ADHEM

LESSON 27 LUCY FORESTER

LESSON 28 THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS

LESSON 29 THE TOWN PUMP

LESSON 30 GOOD NIGHT

LESSON 31 AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL

LESSON 32 MY MOTHER’S HANDS

LESSON 33 THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM

LESSON 34 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS

LESSON 35 THE THUNDERSTORM

LESSON 36 APRIL DAY

LESSON 37 THE TEA ROSE

LESSON 38 THE CATARACT OF LODORE

LESSON 39 THE BOBOLINK

LESSON 40 ROBERT OF LINCOLN

LESSON 41 REBELLION IN MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON

LESSON 42 FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY

LESSON 43 THE GENEROUS RUSSIAN PEASANT

LESSON 44 FORTY YEARS AGO

LESSON 45 MRS. CAUDLE’S LECTURE

LESSON 46 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

LESSON 47 THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW

LESSON 48 THE SNOWSTORM

LESSON 49 BEHIND TIME

LESSON 50 THE OLD SAMPLER

LESSON 51 THE GOODNESS OF GOD

LESSON 52 MY MOTHER

LESSON 53 THE HOUR OF PRAYER

LESSON 54 THE WILL

LESSON 55 THE NOSE AND THE EYES

LESSON 56 AN ICEBERG

LESSON 57 ABOUT QUAIL

LESSON 58 THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

LESSON 59 THE MACHINIST’S RETURN

LESSON 60 MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY

LESSON 61 THE ENGLISH SKYLARK

LESSON 62 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE

LESSON 63 THE RAINBOW

LESSON 64 SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS

LESSON 65 THE RISING

LESSON 66 CONTROL YOUR TEMPER

LESSON 67 WILLIAM TELL

LESSON 68 WILLIAM TELL (CONCLUDED)

LESSON 69 THE CRAZY ENGINEER

LESSON 70 THE HERITAGE

LESSON 71 NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABOR

LESSON 72 THE OLD HOUSE CLOCK

LESSON 73 THE EXAMINATION

LESSON 74 THE ISLE OF LONG AGO

LESSON 75 THE BOSTON MASSACRE

LESSON 76 DEATH OF THE BEAUTIFUL

LESSON 77 SNOW FALLING

LESSON 78 SQUEERS’S METHOD

LESSON 79 THE GIFT OF EMPTY HANDS

LESSON 80 CAPTURING THE WILD HORSE

LESSON 81 SOWING AND REAPING

LESSON 82 TAKING COMFORT

LESSON 83 CALLING THE ROLL

LESSON 84 TURTLE SOUP

LESSON 85 THE BEST KIND OF REVENGE

LESSON 86 THE SOLDIER OF THE RHINE

LESSON 87 THE WINGED WORSHIPERS

LESSON 88 THE PEEVISH WIFE

LESSON 89 THE RAINY DAY

LESSON 90 BREAK, BREAK, BREAK

LESSON 91 TRANSPORTATION AND PLANTING OF SEEDS

LESSON 92 SPRING AGAIN

LESSON 93 RELIGION THE ONLY BASIS OF SOCIETY

LESSON 94 ROCK ME TO SLEEP

LESSON 95 MAN AND THE INFERIOR ANIMALS

LESSON 96 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT

LESSON 97 A HOME SCENE

LESSON 98 THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS

LESSON 99 A CHASE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

LESSON 100 BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE

LESSON 101 LITTLE VICTORIES

LESSON 102 THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE

LESSON 103 THE ART OF DISCOURAGEMENT

LESSON 104 THE MARINER’S DREAM

LESSON 105 THE PASSENGER PIGEON

LESSON 106 THE COUNTRY LIFE

LESSON 107 THE VIRGINIANS

LESSON 108 MINOT’S LEDGE

LESSON 109 HAMLET

LESSON 110 DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIG

LESSON 111 A PEN PICTURE

LESSON 112 THE GREAT VOICES

LESSON 113 A PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE

LESSON 114 A SUMMER LONGING

LESSON 115 FATE

LESSON 116 THE BIBLE THE BEST OF CLASSICS

LESSON 117 MY MOTHER’S BIBLE