Read the Robert Fulghum essay on All I Really Need to Know... Share your thoughts on his ideas. Write 5 of your own beliefs/ credos. Explain
why you chose them. Write 10 of your own rules or values or essentials
for life. What do you think are the most important rules or values to live
the best life you can? Why do you think so?

wheres the passage bud xd

explanation:

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.