Assess students' ability to apply Systemic Functional Linguistics to political news: identify and label theme and rheme at clause level (topical, interpersonal, textual), locate and classify modality markers (modal verbs, adverbs, modalized verbs/phrases), interpret modality values (probability, obligation, inclination) and explain how these choices construct stance and ideological emphasis; require clause-by-clause annotation of short news excerpts and a brief critical commentary linking linguistic features to persuasive effect.