美国语文读本5

　　LESSON 1 THE GOOD READER
　　LESSON 2 THE BLUEBELL
　　LESSON 3 THE GENTLE HAND
　　LESSON 4 THE GRANDFATHER
　　LESSON 5 A BOY ON A FARM
　　LESSON 6 THE SINGING LESSON
　　LESSON 7 DO NOT MEDDLE
　　LESSON 8 WORK
　　LESSON 9 THE MANIAC
　　LESSON 10 ROBIN REDBREAST
　　LESSON 11 THE FISH I DIDN'T CATCH
　　LESSON 12 IT SNOWS
　　LESSON 13 RESPECT FOR THE SABBATH REWARDED
　　LESSON 14 THE SANDS O' DEE
　　LESSON 15 SELECT PARAGRAPHS
　　LESSON 16 THE CORN SONG
　　LESSON 17 THE VENOMOUS WORM
　　LESSON 18 THE FESTAL BOARD
　　LESSON 19 HOW TO TELL BAD NEWS
　　LESSON 20 THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM
　　LESSON 21 "I PITY THEM"
　　LESSON 22 AN ELEGY ON MADAM BLAIZE
　　LESSON 23 KING CHARLES II AND WILLIAM PENN
　　LESSON 24 WHAT I LIVE FOR
　　LESSON 25 THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKEN
　　LESSON 26 ABOU BEN ADHEM
　　LESSON 27 LUCY FORESTER
　　LESSON 28 THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS
　　LESSON 29 THE TOWN PUMP
　　LESSON 30 GOOD NIGHT
　　LESSON 31 AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL
　　LESSON 32 MY MOTHER'S HANDS
　　LESSON 33 THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM
　　LESSON 34 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS
　　LESSON 35 THE THUNDERSTORM
　　LESSON 36 APRIL DAY
　　LESSON 37 THE TEA ROSE
　　LESSON 38 THE CATARACT OF LODORE
　　LESSON 39 THE BOBOLINK
　　LESSON 40 ROBERT OF LINCOLN
　　LESSON 41 REBELLION IN MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON
　　LESSON 42 FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY
　　LESSON 43 THE GENEROUS RUSSIAN PEASANT
　　LESSON 44 FORTY YEARS AGO
　　LESSON 45 MRS. CAUDLE'S LECTURE
　　LESSON 46 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
　　LESSON 47 THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW
　　LESSON 48 THE SNOWSTORM
　　LESSON 49 BEHIND TIME
　　LESSON 50 THE OLD SAMPLER
　　LESSON 51 THE GOODNESS OF GOD
　　LESSON 52 MY MOTHER
　　LESSON 53 THE HOUR OF PRAYER
　　LESSON 54 THE WILL
　　LESSON 55 THE NOSE AND THE EYES
　　LESSON 56 AN ICEBERG
　　LESSON 57 ABOUT QUAIL
　　LESSON 58 THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
　　LESSON 59 THE MACHINIST'S RETURN
　　LESSON 60 MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY
　　LESSON 61 THE ENGLISH SKYLARK
　　LESSON 62 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE
　　LESSON 63 THE RAINBOW
　　LESSON 64 SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS
　　LESSON 65 THE RISING
　　LESSON 66 CONTROL YOUR TEMPER
　　LESSON 67 WILLIAM TELL
　　LESSON 68 WILLIAM TELL (CONCLUDED)
　　LESSON 69 THE CRAZY ENGINEER
　　LESSON 70 THE HERITAGE
　　LESSON 71 NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABOR
　　LESSON 72 THE OLD HOUSE CLOCK
　　LESSON 73 THE EXAMINATION
　　LESSON 74 THE ISLE OF LONG AGO
　　LESSON 75 THE BOSTON MASSACRE
　　LESSON 76 DEATH OF THE BEAUTIFUL
　　LESSON 77 SNOW FALLING
　　LESSON 78 SQUEERS'S METHOD
　　LESSON 79 THE GIFT OF EMPTY HANDS
　　LESSON 80 CAPTURING THE WILD HORSE
　　LESSON 81 SOWING AND REAPING
　　LESSON 82 TAKING COMFORT
　　LESSON 83 CALLING THE ROLL
　　LESSON 84 TURTLE SOUP
　　LESSON 85 THE BEST KIND OF REVENGE
　　LESSON 86 THE SOLDIER OF THE RHINE
　　LESSON 87 THE WINGED WORSHIPERS
　　LESSON 88 THE PEEVISH WIFE
　　LESSON 89 THE RAINY DAY
　　LESSON 90 BREAK, BREAK, BREAK
　　LESSON 91 TRANSPORTATION AND PLANTING OF SEEDS
　　LESSON 92 SPRING AGAIN
　　LESSON 93 RELIGION THE ONLY BASIS OF SOCIETY
　　LESSON 94 ROCK ME TO SLEEP
　　LESSON 95 MAN AND THE INFERIOR ANIMALS
　　LESSON 96 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
　　LESSON 97 A HOME SCENE
　　LESSON 98 THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
　　LESSON 99 A CHASE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
　　LESSON 100 BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE
　　LESSON 101 LITTLE VICTORIES
　　LESSON 102 THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE
　　LESSON 103 THE ART OF DISCOURAGEMENT
　　LESSON 104 THE MARINER'S DREAM
　　LESSON 105 THE PASSENGER PIGEON
　　LESSON 106 THE COUNTRY LIFE
　　LESSON 107 THE VIRGINIANS
　　LESSON 108 MINOT'S LEDGE
　　LESSON 109 HAMLET
　　LESSON 110 DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIG
　　LESSON 111 A PEN PICTURE
　　LESSON 112 THE GREAT VOICES
　　LESSON 113 A PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE
　　LESSON 114 A SUMMER LONGING
　　LESSON 115 FATE
　　LESSON 116 THE BIBLE THE BEST OF CLASSICS
　　LESSON 117 MY MOTHER'S BIBLE

　　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。
　　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.
　　 

　　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5(美国原版经典语文课本)》主要介绍了狄更斯、华盛顿o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 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 30000 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 fifth reader was designed for elocutionary exercises to increase articulation inflection pitch accent rate emphasis and gesture. It contained poetry and prose by Sigourney Montgomery Addison Irving Young and Byron.