Assess students’ ability to identify and analyze rhetorical strategies (ethos, pathos, logos, framing, metaphor, repetition) and logical fallacies (ad hominem, straw man, false dilemma, slippery slope, equivocation) in brief contemporary political-speech excerpts; tasks include identification, explanation of persuasive effect on target audiences, evaluation of ethical and argumentative strength, and proposing revisions to improve clarity and reasoning.