美國語文讀本(6)（簡體書）

《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，于是將之合併為第1冊，其余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于作品之中，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 McGuffeys Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Websters Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single persons name has come close to that mark. McGuffeys 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.

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年畢業于華盛頓大學杰斐遜學院。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年開始任弗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后代提供普遍的教育，于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。他前后花費了20多年的時間才完成全套教材的編寫。這套教材面世后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于西方，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 nations 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 Websters 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 Pennsylvanias Washington College, where he became an instructor.
He was close friends with Washington Colleges President Andrew Wylie and lived in Wylies house for a time; they often would walk the 3 miles to Washington College together.
McGuffeys 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.

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