Which of the following topics for a narrative about a difficult choice would be best told in the first-person? 1.) a story about three friends who are backpacking, and one wants to go off the trail 2.) a girl deciding whether to break up with her boyfriend 3.) a group of students voting to walk out of class in protest over cafeteria food 4.) a story about your dad’s decision to join the army and his time in the war

The topic for a narrative about a difficult choice that would be best told in the first-person is 2.) a girl deciding whether to break up with her boyfriend  Explanation:

The first person narrative gives the point of view of the person that is telling the story, the only example we have in the options of a personal point of view is option 2 the other options involve others besides the narrator, options 1 and 3 have several characters and in order to tell the full story it is necessary to use a different style from the first person and option 4 is clearly a third person story.

a pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his pants.

bartender: isn't that uncomfortable?

pirate: arrgh! it's drivin' me nuts!

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.