美国语文读本(3)

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 third reader was much more formal. It contained rules for oral reading of its fifty-seven lessons. This book contained only three pictures and was designed for a more mature mind, of junior high standing today.

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。

LESSON 1 THE SHEPHERD BOY LESSON 2 JOHNNY’S FIRST SNOWSTORM LESSON 3 LET IT RAIN LESSON 4 CASTLE-BUILDING LESSON 5 CASTLE-BUILDING (CONCLUDED) LESSON 6 LEND A HAND LESSON 7 THE TRUANT LESSON 8 THE WHITE KITTEN LESSON 9 THE BEAVER LESSON 10 THE YOUNG TEACHER LESSON 11 THE BLACKSMITH 24 LESSON 12 A WALK IN THE GARDEN LESSON 13 THE WOLF LESSON 14 THE LITTLE BIRD’S SONG LESSON 15 HARRY AND ANNIE LESSON 16 BIRD FRIENDS LESSON 17 WHAT THE MINUTES SAY LESSON 18 THE WIDOW AND THE LESSON 19 THE BIRDS SET FREE LESSON 20 A MOMENT TOO LATE LESSON 21 HUMMING BIRDS LESSON 22 THE WIND AND THE SUN LESSON 23 SUNSET LESSON 24 BEAUTIFUL HANDS LESSON 25 THINGS TO REMEMBER LESSON 26 THREE LITTLE MICE LESSON 27 THE NEW YEAR LESSON 28 THE CLOCK AND THE SUNDIAL LESSON 29 REMEMBER LESSON 30 COURAGE AND COWARDICE LESSON 31 WEIGHING AN ELEPHANT LESSON 32 THE SOLDIER LESSON 33 THE ECHO LESSON 34 GEORGE’S FEAST LESSON 35 THE LORD’S PRAYER LESSON 36 FINDING THE OWNER LESSON 37 BATS LESSON 38 A SUMMER DAY LESSON 39 I WILL THINK OF IT LESSON 40 CHARLIE AND ROB LESSON 41 RAY AND HIS KITE LESSON 42 BEWARE OF THE FIRST DRINK LESSON 43 SPEAK GENTLY LESSON 44 THE SEVEN STICKS LESSON 45 THE MOUNTAIN SISTER LESSON 46 HARRY AND THE GUIDEPOST LESSON 47 THE MONEY AMY DID N’T EARN LESSON 48 WHO MADE THE STARS? LESSON 49 DEEDS OF KINDNESS LESSON 50 THE ALARM CLOCK LESSON 51 SPRING LESSON 52 TRUE COURAGE LESSON 53 THE OLD CLOCK LESSON 54 THE WAVES LESSON 55 DON’T KILL THE BIRDS LESSON 56 WHEN TO SAY NO LESSON 57 WHICH LOVED BEST? LESSON 58 JOHN CARPENTER LESSON 59 PERSEVERE LESSON 60 THE CONTENTED BOY LESSON 61 LITTLE GUSTAVA LESSON 62 THE INSOLENT BOY LESSON 63 WE ARE SEVEN LESSON 64 MARY’S DIME LESSON 65 MARY DOW LESSON 66 THE LITTLE LOAF LESSON 67 SUSIE AND ROVER LESSON 68 THE VIOLET LESSON 69 NO CROWN FOR ME LESSON 70 YOUNG SOLDIERS LESSON 71 HOW WILLIE GOT OUT OF THE SHAFT LESSON 72 THE PERT CHICKEN LESSON 73 INDIAN CORN LESSON 74 THE SNOWBIRD’S SONG LESSON 75 MOUNTAINS LESSON 76 A CHILD’S HYMN LESSON 77 HOLDING THE FORT LESSON 78 THE LITTLE PEOPLE LESSON 79 GOOD NIGHT