Alex and Emma (2003)

After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.

Alex lures Emma into working for him under false pretenses. What could she have done that would have allowed her to be alone with Alex in a safer, more controlled environment?

Emma uses a machine called a Stenograph. Stenographers are employed as court reporters and in other industries where real time transcription of dialogue is required 0x2013 one example being closed captioning on television programs. For more information visit www.stenograph.com.