美國語文讀本6

《美國語文讀本6》是2011年1月1日由上海三聯書店出版的圖書，作者是 (美國) 威廉·H·麥加菲。本書是全英語種，它以一個個道德教育小故事來塑造青少年的價值觀，曾被很多學校選為課本。

基本介紹

• 書名：美國語文讀本6
• 作者： (美國) 威廉·H·麥加菲
• 原版名稱：The Eclectic Readers
• ISBN： 9787542634146, 7542634143
• 頁數：341頁
• 出版社：上海三聯書店
• 出版時間：第1版 (2011年1月1日)
• 裝幀：平裝
• 開本：16

作者簡介

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6(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6(美國原版經典語文課本)》引用了莎士比亞、朗費羅、狄更斯、艾迪生等名家名篇，通過一篇篇短小精悍的故事，將道德教育的內容傾注於作品之中，讓孩子在欣賞這些優美文章的同時，從中感受到道德教育的力量。

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.

In the sixth and final reader of 1885, there were 186 selections, 111 great authors were quoted such as Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens and Addison. The theme of the selections included several forms of composition, description, narration, argumentation and exposition. In this book there were also seventeen selections from the Bible.

目錄

LESSON 1 ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE

LESSON 2 THE NEEDLE

LESSON 3 DAWN

LESSON 4 DESCRIPTION OF A STORM

LESSON 5 AFTER THE THUNDERSTORM

LESSON 6 HOUSE CLEANING

LESSON 7 SCHEMES OF LIFE OFTEN ILLUSORY

LESSON 8 THE BRAVE OLD OAK

LESSON 9 THE ARTIST SURPRISED

LESSON 10 PICTURES OF MEMORY

LESSON 11 THE MORNING ORATORIO

LESSON 12 SHORT SELECTIONS IN POETRY

LESSON 13 DEATH OF LITTLE NELL

LESSON 14 VANITY OF LIFE

LESSON 15 A POLITICAL PAUSE

LESSON 16 MY EXPERIENCE IN ELOCUTION

LESSON 17 ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD

LESSON 18 TACT AND TALENT

LESSON 19 SPEECH BEFORE THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION

LESSON 20 THE AMERICAN FLAG

LESSON 21 IRONICAL EULOGY ON DEBT

LESSON 22 THE THREE WARNINGS

LESSON 23 THE MEMORY OF OUR FATHERS

LESSON 24 SHORT SELECTIONS IN PROSE

LESSON 25 THE JOLLY OLD PEDAGOGUE

LESSON 26 THE TEACHER AND SICK SCHOLAR

LESSON 27 THE SNOW SHOWER

LESSON 28 CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

LESSON 29 NAPOLEON AT REST

LESSON 30 WAR

LESSON 31 SPEECH OF WALPOLE IN REPROOF OF MR. PITT

LESSON 32 PITT’S REPLY TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE

LESSON 33 CHARACTER OF MR. PITT

LESSON 34 THE SOLDIER’S REST

LESSON 35 HENRY V. TO HIS TROOPS

LESSON 36 SPEECH OF PAUL ON MARS HILL

LESSON 37 GOD IS EVERYWHERE

LESSON 38 LAFAYETTE AND ROBERT RAIKES

LESSON 39 FALL OF CARDINAL WOLSEY

LESSON 40 THE PHILOSOPHER

LESSON 41 MARMION AND DOUGLAS

LESSON 42 THE PRESENT

LESSON 43 THE BAPTISM

LESSON 44 SPARROWS

LESSON 45 OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH

LESSON 46 GOD’S GOODNESS TO SUCH AS FEAR HIM

LESSON 47 CHARACTER OF COLUMBUS

LESSON 48 “HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP”

LESSON 49 DESCRIPTION OF A SIEGE

LESSON 50 MARCO BOZZARIS

LESSON 51 SONG OF THE GREEK BARD

LESSON 52 NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

LESSON 53 LOCHIEL’S WARNING

LESSON 54 ON HAPPINESS OF TEMPER

LESSON 55 THE FORTUNE TELLER

LESSON 56 RIENZI’S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS

LESSON 57 CHARACTER OF THE PURITAN FATHERS OFNEW ENGLAND

LESSON 58 LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS

LESSON 59 NECESSITY OF EDUCATION

LESSON 60 RIDING ON A SNOWPLOW

LESSON 61 THE QUARREL OF BRUTUS AND CASSIUS

LESSON 62 THE QUACK

LESSON 63 RIP VAN WINKLE

LESSON 64 BILL AND JOE

LESSON 65 SORROW FOR THE DEAD

LESSON 66 THE EAGLE

LESSON 67 POLITICAL TOLERATION

LESSON 68 WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?

LESSON 69 THE BRAVE AT HOME

LESSON 70 SOUTH CAROLINA

LESSON 71 MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTH CAROLINA

LESSON 72 THE CHURCH SCENE FROM EVANGELINE

LESSON 73 SONG OF THE SHIRT

LESSON 74 DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND

LESSON 75 THANATOPSIS

LESSON 76 INDIAN JUGGLERS

LESSON 77 ANTONY OVER CAESAR’S DEAD BODY

LESSON 78 THE ENGLISH CHARACTER

LESSON 79 THE SONG OF THE POTTER

LESSON 80 A HOT DAY IN NEW YORK

LESSON 81 DISCONTENT.—AN ALLEGORY

LESSON 82 JUPITER AND TEN

LESSON 83 SCENE FROM “THE POOR GENTLEMAN”

LESSON 84 MY MOTHER’S PICTURE

LESSON 85 DEATH OF SAMSON

LESSON 86 AN EVENING ADVENTURE

LESSON 87 THE BAREFOOT BOY

LESSON 88 THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS

LESSON 89 THE FOLLY OF INTOXICATION

LESSON 90 STARVED ROCK

LESSON 91 PRINCE HENRY AND FALSTAFF

LESSON 92 STUDIES

LESSON 93 SURRENDER OF GRANADA

LESSON 94 HAMLET’S SOLILOQUY

LESSON 95 GINEVRA

LESSON 96 INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

LESSON 97 ENOCH ARDEN AT THE WINDOW

LESSON 98 LOCHINVAR

LESSON 99 SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF A MURDERER

LESSON 100 THE CLOSING YEAR

LESSON 101 A NEW CITY IN COLORADO

LESSON 102 IMPORTANCE OF THE UNION

LESSON 103 THE INFLUENCES OF THE SUN

LESSON 104 COLLOQUIAL POWERS OF FRANKLIN

LESSON 105 THE DREAM OF CLARENCE

LESSON 106 HOMEWARD BOUND

LESSON 107 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS

LESSON 108 DESTRUCTION OF THE CARNATIC

LESSON 109 THE RAVEN

LESSON 110 A VIEW OF THE COLOSSEUM

LESSON 111 THE BRIDGE

LESSON 112 OBJECTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENCE

LESSON 113 THE DOWNFALL OF POLAND

LESSON 114 LABOR

LESSON 115 THE LAST DAYS OF HERCULANEUM

LESSON 116 HOW MEN REASON

LESSON 117 THUNDERSTORM ON THE ALPS

LESSON 118 ORIGIN OF PROPERTY

LESSON 119 BATTLE OF WATERLOO

LESSON 120 “WITH BRAINS, SIR”

LESSON 121 THE NEW ENGLAND PASTOR

LESSON 122 DEATH OF ABSALOM

LESSON 123 ABRAHAM DAVENPORT

LESSON 124 THE FALLS OF THE YOSEMITE

LESSON 125 A PSALM OF LIFE

LESSON 126 FRANKLIN’S ENTRY INTO PHILADELPHIA

LESSON 127 LINES TO A WATERFOWL

LESSON 128 GOLDSMITH AND ADDISON

LESSON 129 IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

LESSON 130 CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON

LESSON 131 EULOGY ON WASHINGTON

LESSON 132 THE SOLITARY REAPER

LESSON 133 VALUE OF THE PRESENT

LESSON 134 HAPPINESS

LESSON 135 MARION

LESSON 136 A COMMON THOUGHT

LESSON 137 A DEFINITE AIM IN READING

LESSON 138 ODE TO MT. BLANC