美国语文读本4  外国●文学

威廉·H·麦加菲
上海三联（2011-1）
18元 / 247页
9787542634108
标签： 美国语文  英语  America  Education  原版教材  读本 

《美国语文读本4(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4(美国原版经典语文课本)》介绍了一些优美的文学作品，包括诗歌和《圣经》的节选。主要讨论了拿破仑•波拿巴、清教徒先祖、妇女、上帝、宗教信仰和哲学等话题。课后还附有一些思考练习，这些练习可以帮助学生更好地理解文章，引发孩子们的思考。本书更适合高年级学生阅读。

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 fourth reader was an introduction to good literature. It contained British poetry and used the Bible among its selections. This text was addressed to the highest grade in schools, its difficulty compared to that of American secondary schools. It discussed Napoleon Bonaparte, Puritan fathers, women, God, education, religion and philosophy.