美国语文读本5（美国原版经典语文课本）

西方学校原版教材与经典读物   这套读本的英文原版共分七级，包括启蒙读本和第1-6级。考虑到启蒙读本与级篇幅都较少，难易程度也很近，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。 本书主要介绍了狄更斯、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 MiamiUniversity McGuffey, had a profound influence on public educationin the United States. The eclectic readers, meaning that theselections were chosen from a number of sources, were consideredremarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influenceupon 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'sReaders were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in acategory with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Since 1961 theyhave continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. Noother textbook bearing a single person's name has come close tothat mark. McGuffey's Readers are still in use today in some schoolsystems, and by parents for home schooling purposes. The fifth reader was designed for elocutionary exercises toincrease articulation, inflection, pitch, accent, rate, emphasisand gesture. It contained poetry and prose by Sigourney,Montgomery, Addison, Irving, Young and Byron.
【作者】
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。