Kerry Beck’s Blog

Below are some answers about my favorite high school curriculum - Gileskirk Humanities. I usually prefer to choose my own curriculum, but not when I prepare my children to think Biblically before leaving home. Nothing compares to George Grant and Gileskirk.

First of all, I am very interested in knowing the average time to complete the Gileskirk daily assignments. I want to know how time consuming this program is and what other subjects we would still need to add to this.

Once we got into the groove of Gileskirk, it takes very little prep time for me, except listening to lectures and reading the books. My kids spend about 1 ½-2 hours each day working on Gileskirk. Two days they watch the lecture, two days they catch up on reading/reading journals. We review the week’s lessons on Thursday and they take the quiz/opportunity on Friday.

As far as literature goes, too, I think I heard that we would need to add to this to create a complete literature course.

This really depends on how you approach literature. I’ve used some study guides to help me through some titles we have read. Other than that, we have Socratic discussions about the literature we are reading. I can read the daily reading journals to see what the kids are learning from their readings. I often tie in a formal writing assignment with the readings. If you want something all laid out for your literature, you will need to get some supplements. I have not seen the updated versions of this course to know how many lit helps there are. When we used Modernity, there were lots of quizzes, journal starters and tests.

Is this course only for very bright students or can average students use this and get a good understanding of the Christian worldview as well? We really want to learn and teach the Christian worldview in a deep way to our children.

Average students can use this course. There may be an adjustment period at first and you may need to alter the assignments the first few months to ease into it, but we haven’t had a hard time after the initial few months.

In my opinion, Gileskirk is the best program for a Christian worldview in high school. It has answers to questions and helps for moms.

So, yes, it is worth the money in my opinion. Once you buy it, you can use it over & over again for all your kids.

Here’s my review of Gileskirk
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Kerry