Question: A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person. Catholics believe that patron saints, having already transcended to the metaphysical, are able to intercede effectively for the needs of their special charges. 

Historically, a similar practice has also occurred in many Islamic lands. Although Islam has no codified doctrine of patronage on the part of saints, it has nevertheless been an important part of both Sunni and Shia Islamic tradition that particularly important classical saints have served as the heavenly advocates for specific Muslim empires, nations, cities, towns, and villages. With regard to the sheer omnipresence of this belief, the late Martin Lings wrote: "There is scarcely a region in the empire of Islam which has not a Sufi for its Patron Saint." As the veneration accorded saints often develops purely organically in Islamic climates, in a manner different to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity, "patron saints" are often recognized through popular acclaim rather than through official declaration. Traditionally, it has been understood that the patron saint of a particular place prays for that place's wellbeing and for the health and happiness of all who live therein. The veneration of patron saints has lessened since the eighteenth-century in certain parts of the Islamic world, due to the growing influence in those of areas of latter-day "reformation" movements like Salafism and Wahhabism, which shun the veneration of saints in general. 1. What kind of movement is Salafism?
2. What's another one
3. How do they feel about the veneration of saints?
4. What is a patron saint?
5. Of what?
6. Is this in all religions?
7. How many?
8. Which ones?
9. Does all of Islam believe this way?
10. Where do Catholics believe saints have transcended to?
11. What parts of Islam include patron saints/
12. What do some saints do in Islam?
13. For who? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. latter-day "reformation" movement
2. Wahhabism
3. they shun them
4. a heavenly advocate
5. a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person
6. no
7. four
8. Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam
9. no
10. the metaphysical
11. Sunni and Shia
12. serve as heavenly advocates
13. Muslim empires, nations, cities, towns, and villages


Question: CHAPTER III 

OUT OF PERIL 

"Oh look! May and Fred have both gone down!" cried Ruth. 

"Yes, and there go Andy and Randy over them!" exclaimed Jack. 

"And look, Jack, the ice is cracking everywhere!" continued the frightened girl. She clutched his arm and looked appealingly into his face. "Oh! what shall we do?" 

"Spread out, you fellows! Spread out!" yelled the oldest Rover boy. "Spread out! Don't keep together!" 

His cry was heard, and an instant later Andy commenced to roll over on the ice in one direction while his twin rolled in another. In the meantime, Fred had managed to scramble to his feet, and now he pulled up May. 

"Come on, we'll soon be out of danger," encouraged the youngest Rover; and, striking out, he pulled May behind him, the girl being too excited to skate. 

In less than a minute the danger, so far as it concerned the Rovers and the two girls from Clearwater Hall, was past. All reached a point where the ice was perfectly firm. Here Ruth speedily gained her self-possession, but May continued to cling closely to Fred's arm. 

"I'm going to see how they are making out in front of the boathouse!" cried Randy. "Some of the skaters must have gotten in." 

"I'm with you," returned his twin. He looked back at his cousins. "I suppose you will look after the girls?" 

"Sure!" answered Jack quickly. "Go ahead." 

"I don't suppose we can be of any assistance down there?" came from Fred.  1. Was anyone in danger?
2. What was wrong?
3. Did anyone fall in?
4. How many?
5. Who?
6. Who else had fallen?
7. Who got up first?
8. Who did he help?
9. Who gave orders when the accident occured?
10. Wherer were the girls from?
11. Did May wander away from people?
12. Who was she near?
13. Were they in peril for a long time?
14. How long then?
15. What was someone in front of?
16. What activity were they wanting to participate in?
17. What happened to the skaters?
18. Who alerted them to this?
19. Did anyone agree with him?
20. Who? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. yes
2. the ice is cracking
3. yes
4. Two
5. May and Fred
6. Andy and Randy
7. Fred
8. May
9. the oldest Rover boy.
10. Clearwater Hall
11. no
12. Fred
13. no
14. less than a minute
15. the boathouse
16. getting in
17. they must have gotten in.
18. Randy
19. yes
20. his twin


Question: Children who spend more time reading with their parents have a greater chance of becoming better readers than those who don't. With help from their parents, children can learn techniques to improve their reading skills. 

"A lot of parents think after their child learns to read, they should stop reading to them," Donna George said. "They are sadly mistaken." 

George offers her services to parents at the Title I Learning Centers. She said reading aloud to children may be the most valuable thing parents can do. "It is better for children to hear things at a higher level than where they are," George said. "Parents are their child's first teacher." Parents help their children build listening, phonics , comprehension and vocabulary skills when they read aloud to them. 

Before parents can identify reading problems, they should escape the enemy----television and limit the time their children spend watching television. George suggested not allowing kids to have a TV in their bedrooms, setting a schedule of when kids can watch or keeping a list of how many programs children watch. Louise Joiners said while her 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son enjoy reading, the television sometimes becomes a _ . So she tries to build the situation by suggesting books the entire family will enjoy reading together, like the Harry Potter series. 

Parents who do not read themselves should not depend on their children being enthusiastic about it. If parents would read to their children at least 15 minutes every day, children would not have so many problems in school. It is the parents' job to help build that desire in their children, and of course to know what kind of books to read is also important. 1. Once a child learns to read is a parents job with that done?
2. Who is Donna George?
3. Who does she consider a child's first teacher?
4. What does she think of as the enemy?
5. Is reading to kids important?
6. Does this build any skills?
7. What is one?
8. Should children have a tv in their room?
9. What is the minimum time parents should read to kids?
10. How often?
11. What would this curtail?
12. How can children gain techniques for reading?
13. What level is it good for kids to hear things on?
14. What should parents schedule?
15. watch what?
16. What should they have a list of?
17. Is Louise a mother?
18. to how many kids?
19. what ages
20. Do they like to read? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. no
2. she runs a Title I Center
3. Parents
4. television
5. yes
6. yes
7. vocabulary
8. no
9. 15 minutes
10. every day
11. problems in school
12. With parent's help.
13. a higher level
14. when to watch
15. TV
16. programs
17. yes
18. two
19. 14 and 10
20. yes