What is iambic pentameter?
a) lines of poetry with a rhyme scheme of ababababab
b) poetry that uses precise imagery and an irregular meter
c) poetry written in praise of a love’s beauty compared to nature
d) lines of poetry with a pattern of 10 unaccented and accented syllables

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

if you don't mind posting the paragraph so i could read it that would a lot. (;