美国语文读本5

出版者:上海三联

作者:威廉·H·麦加菲

页数:296

出版时间:2011-1

价格:25.00元

isbn号码:9787542634115

丛书系列:美国语文读本

具体描述

《美国语文读本5(美国原版经典语文课本)》：这套读本的英文原版共分七级，包括启蒙读本和第1-6级。考虑到启蒙读本与第一级篇幅都较少，难易程度也很接近，于是将之合并为第1册，其余2-6级与英文原版相同。这样国内出版的这套读本共包括6册。

《美国语文读本5(美国原版经典语文课本)》主要介绍了狄更斯、华盛顿•欧文、爱默生等名家的诗歌和散文，每篇文章前还增加了作者简介与相关背景知识，内容丰富而有一定深度。

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.

作者简介

威廉•H•麦加菲，美国著名教育家。1800年出生于宾夕法尼亚州，1826年毕业于华盛顿大学杰斐逊学院。在数十年教育生涯中，他曾担任过迈阿密大学语言学教授，俄亥俄大学校长。自1845年开始任弗吉尼亚大学道德哲学教授。他还帮助组建了俄亥俄州公立学校体系。

早在19世纪初期，麦加菲就意识到，应该给那些孤独的垦荒者和欧洲移民的后代提供普遍的教育，于是他利用自己作为演讲家与教育工作者的天赋，开始为孩子们编写系列教材。这套教材共7册，从学龄前至第6年级。他前后花费了20多年的时间才完成全套教材的编写。这套教材面世后就被美国很多学校选为课本。在75年间销量高达1.22亿，直到今天仍以各种版本流行于西方，被美国《出版周刊》评为“人类出版史上第三大畅销书”，对美国青年的心灵塑造与道德培养产生了史无前例的影响。

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.

目录信息

LESSON 1 THE GOOD READERLESSON 2 THE BLUEBELLLESSON 3 THE GENTLE HANDLESSON 4 THE GRANDFATHERLESSON 5 A BOY ON A FARMLESSON 6 THE SINGING LESSONLESSON 7 DO NOT MEDDLELESSON 8 WORKLESSON 9 THE MANIACLESSON 10 ROBIN REDBREASTLESSON 11 THE FISH I DIDN’T CATCHLESSON 12 IT SNOWSLESSON 13 RESPECT FOR THE SABBATH REWARDEDLESSON 14 THE SANDS O’ DEELESSON 15 SELECT PARAGRAPHSLESSON 16 THE CORN SONGLESSON 17 THE VENOMOUS WORMLESSON 18 THE FESTAL BOARDLESSON 19 HOW TO TELL BAD NEWSLESSON 20 THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIMLESSON 21 “I PITY THEM”LESSON 22 AN ELEGY ON MADAM BLAIZELESSON 23 KING CHARLES II AND WILLIAM PENNLESSON 24 WHAT I LIVE FORLESSON 25 THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKENLESSON 26 ABOU BEN ADHEMLESSON 27 LUCY FORESTERLESSON 28 THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERSLESSON 29 THE TOWN PUMPLESSON 30 GOOD NIGHTLESSON 31 AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRLLESSON 32 MY MOTHER’S HANDSLESSON 33 THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUMLESSON 34 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERSLESSON 35 THE THUNDERSTORMLESSON 36 APRIL DAYLESSON 37 THE TEA ROSELESSON 38 THE CATARACT OF LODORELESSON 39 THE BOBOLINKLESSON 40 ROBERT OF LINCOLNLESSON 41 REBELLION IN MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISONLESSON 42 FAITHLESS NELLY GRAYLESSON 43 THE GENEROUS RUSSIAN PEASANTLESSON 44 FORTY YEARS AGOLESSON 45 MRS. CAUDLE’S LECTURELESSON 46 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITHLESSON 47 THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOWLESSON 48 THE SNOWSTORMLESSON 49 BEHIND TIMELESSON 50 THE OLD SAMPLERLESSON 51 THE GOODNESS OF GODLESSON 52 MY MOTHERLESSON 53 THE HOUR OF PRAYERLESSON 54 THE WILLLESSON 55 THE NOSE AND THE EYESLESSON 56 AN ICEBERGLESSON 57 ABOUT QUAILLESSON 58 THE BLUE AND THE GRAYLESSON 59 THE MACHINIST’S RETURNLESSON 60 MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTYLESSON 61 THE ENGLISH SKYLARKLESSON 62 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVELESSON 63 THE RAINBOWLESSON 64 SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMSLESSON 65 THE RISINGLESSON 66 CONTROL YOUR TEMPERLESSON 67 WILLIAM TELLLESSON 68 WILLIAM TELL (CONCLUDED)LESSON 69 THE CRAZY ENGINEERLESSON 70 THE HERITAGELESSON 71 NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABORLESSON 72 THE OLD HOUSE CLOCKLESSON 73 THE EXAMINATIONLESSON 74 THE ISLE OF LONG AGOLESSON 75 THE BOSTON MASSACRELESSON 76 DEATH OF THE BEAUTIFULLESSON 77 SNOW FALLINGLESSON 78 SQUEERS’S METHODLESSON 79 THE GIFT OF EMPTY HANDSLESSON 80 CAPTURING THE WILD HORSELESSON 81 SOWING AND REAPINGLESSON 82 TAKING COMFORTLESSON 83 CALLING THE ROLLLESSON 84 TURTLE SOUPLESSON 85 THE BEST KIND OF REVENGELESSON 86 THE SOLDIER OF THE RHINELESSON 87 THE WINGED WORSHIPERSLESSON 88 THE PEEVISH WIFELESSON 89 THE RAINY DAYLESSON 90 BREAK, BREAK, BREAKLESSON 91 TRANSPORTATION AND PLANTING OF SEEDSLESSON 92 SPRING AGAINLESSON 93 RELIGION THE ONLY BASIS OF SOCIETYLESSON 94 ROCK ME TO SLEEPLESSON 95 MAN AND THE INFERIOR ANIMALSLESSON 96 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANTLESSON 97 A HOME SCENELESSON 98 THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYSLESSON 99 A CHASE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNELLESSON 100 BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORELESSON 101 LITTLE VICTORIESLESSON 102 THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFELESSON 103 THE ART OF DISCOURAGEMENTLESSON 104 THE MARINER’S DREAMLESSON 105 THE PASSENGER PIGEONLESSON 106 THE COUNTRY LIFELESSON 107 THE VIRGINIANSLESSON 108 MINOT’S LEDGELESSON 109 HAMLETLESSON 110 DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIGLESSON 111 A PEN PICTURELESSON 112 THE GREAT VOICESLESSON 113 A PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFELESSON 114 A SUMMER LONGINGLESSON 115 FATELESSON 116 THE BIBLE THE BEST OF CLASSICSLESSON 117 MY MOTHER’S BIBLE
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