Writing Topic Sentences

Choose the best topic sentence for each of the following paragraphs.

1		This doesn't seem fair. The women often start the dinner the night before Thanksgiving. Many of them even start two and three days beforehand. Then, on Thanksgiving morning, they have to get up really early to put the turkey in the oven. The men have absolutely no Thanksgiving cooking responsibilities. They sit around talking or watching television. Every once in a while, one of them will come into the kitchen to have a taste or to ask, "When are we going to eat?" They never offer to help. Some of them feel that it is their duty to carve or cut the turkey into pieces and serve it. This job only takes about five minutes.
			A)	Women's work is never done.
			B)	Thanksgiving is only a holiday for men!
			C)	Thanksgiving is a lot of work.
2		Every Sunday my whole family went to my grandparents' house for dinnner. They had four children and all of them were married, so often there were twenty people or more for dinner! The young children sat at the "kiddie table" in the kitchen. (You had to be over 13 to sit with the adults.) No matter where you sat, the food was the same and it was delicious! My grandparents were Italian, so we always had pasta. But the pasta was just part of the meal. We might have a plate of pasta and then a plate of fish or beef and vegetables. On Thanksgiving we even had pasta before the turkey. It really was two meals in one. The worst thing about these meals was cleaning up. All the older children had to help wash the mountain of dishes and all the pots!
			A)	Italian family meals are huge.
			B)	It can be difficult to have a large family.
			C)	One of my best memories is visiting my grandparents.