Which BEST summarizes the passage "Excerpts from the Address at Rice University on the Space Effort?" A. Kennedy is explaining why America must explore space and the importance of America leading the way for the world.
B. Kennedy is addressing students and encouraging them to shoot for the stars and make their dreams come true.
C. Kennedy is demonstrating his ability to use a speech to convince American students to agree with his policies
D. Kennedy is explaining how America constantly grows by leading the waves of progress

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.

answer: may i ask who shelly is?

guarenteed the right to self organization