美國語文讀本英文版第二冊-美國原版經(jīng)典語文課本
- 所屬分類：
中小學(xué)課外..
- 作者：
（美）麥加菲 編
- 出版社：
上海三聯(lián)書店
- ISBN：9787542634139
- 出版日期：2011-1-1
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圖書簡介
作者簡介：
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.
目錄
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，于是將之合并為第1冊，其余2-6級與英文原版相同。這樣國內(nèi)出版的這套讀本共包括6冊。
從本書開始，均是比較正式的課文，概述了歷史、生物、天文、動物學(xué)、植物學(xué)、餐桌禮儀、行為舉止、對神和老師的態(tài)度等。每一課包括詞匯和課文，并且對一些生詞的英文做出了解釋，讓學(xué)生學(xué)會通過簡單英文理解生詞，養(yǎng)成用英語理解和思維的習(xí)慣。
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 second reader appeared simultaneously with the first and
followed the same pattern. It contained reading and spelling with
eighty-five lessons, sixteen pictures and one-hundred sixty-six
pages. It outlined history, biology, astronomy, zoology, botany;
table manners, behavior towards family, attitudes toward God and
teachers, the poor; the great and the good. The duties of youth are
stressed. Millions of pioneer men and women were alumni of this
second reader college, they were able to read and write
English.
