When writing a short story, what is the purpose of a story map, or plot diagram? the writer stay on track and focused while drafting provides a picture of the setting that the writer create details the writer move characters between locations the writer decide what locations the main character will visit

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.

heritage? culture? religion? gene? trait?