Assign students to small groups, challenging them to discuss and define the word ‘intertextuality’. Invite groups to share their definitions with the wider class, highlighting and refining students’ ideas to co-construct a succinct definition. For example: 

Intertextuality refers to how all texts are connected to and shaped by other texts. 

Ask students to share their prior knowledge of intertextuality, including possible literary influences on the texts they are currently reading or viewing, and references to other texts within these.   

Working in their groups again, have students research other adaptations of literary works into different mediums, such as books to film, or stage to film. If time permits (or in a subsequent lesson), have students collaboratively create a presentation on how intertextuality influences audience response and interpretation.