During class, some students may daydream about prom, fashion trends, or even college. But have you ever thought about your own inferno?

Recently, the GT Humanities’ students studied the Postclassical era, specifically in Europe.

They read the divine comedy of “Dante’s Inferno.”

Humanities is a two-year gifted and talented class for ninth and tenth graders.

In those two years, they go in depth on art, theatre, history, and literature like “Dante’s Inferno.”

“The divine comedy has three parts and the most famous part is the inferno, in which Dante gives his fictional description of what his inferno would be like,” GT Humanities’ teacher Amy Jones said.

After reading “Dante’s Inferno” the students had the opportunity to create their own inferno.

“My personal inferno was about volleyball and there was just different levels we added to it and like what you shouldn’t do in volleyball,” freshman Shelby Dugas said.

“We did a ‘Harry Potter’ inferno so we put our least favorite characters in it… for certain sins they did,” freshman Stephanie Ray said.

“Our theme was based on like strict parents and it was like really enjoyable for us because it was like an annexation of the divine comedy to the ‘Dante’s Inferno’ literature piece and it integrated the historical and literature parts,” freshman Isaiah Hwang said.

“We did a fashion inferno so it was kind of like…what people shouldn’t do like wear or do in fashion,” freshman Jillian Shoultz said.

With all these different types of infernos, each group designed different sins and punishments to go along with them.

“It was based on theme of contrapasso, like the sin has to match the crime. For example, if you don’t clean your room then you’re like in a heap of dirty clothing until you suffocate,” Hwang said.

“Our worst punishment was if you missed a serve on game point and then I think the punishment was that your coach would repeatedly bite off your head,” Dugas said.

The GT students said their favorite part was the creative aspect.

“It was fun being able to be like creative and use our skills to make a whole different dimension of inferno,” Ray said.

The project challenged their creativity and also gave them the opportunity to learn more about the literature.

“The students have the chance to really understand Dante’s structure and all of the symbolism and allegorical meaning goes into the creation of his inferno,” Jones said.

As they continue to learn more about world history through literature they plan to do many more interactive projects along the way.