Our MLC Homeschool Resources
MLC’s Family Book List
After many requests, we have finished compiling our reading list for families.
It’s free! Just send us a request with your information and we will email it to you.
**As no list is ever really complete, we invite everyone to send us their suggestions of good literature to add to our list. The more people who contribute, the better the list!
Educational options for high school students
The high school years seem to be a hard time for homeschool families in terms of finding good resources and keeping their youth motivated and learning. Often, parents aren’t sure which way to turn and think that maybe just enrolling their high schoolers in college classes is the solution since it’s the latest public school education fad. Early enrollment works fairly well at a regular college, where the workload is smaller. Most students aare focused on earning their associate’s degree during high school; it’s about the degree, not the education.
But Mount Liberty is about the education. Our courses are difficult, and they cover a lot of material which students are expected to read and be prepared to discuss. We have noticed that sometimes early enrollment students are not really ready for the hard work or the depth of material. Consequently, sitting in class with older, more mature classmates, who can converse at a deeper level, makes them feel inadequate, or even incapable. Instead of jumping ahead in their college experience, they give up and end up back in the system at a regular college, just to get that degree and move on.
Of course, this pattern doesn’t hold for every early enrollment student; MLC has had its share of early enrollment students who have more than met the challenge. We want students to flourish when they come. We want them to feel like they’re stretching and growing and that although it’s difficult, they can ultimately succeed if they work hard. We will still permit early enrollment students at MLC, but we will be interviewing each one personally to see if they are ready for the work. Our goal is for every student to be successful.
For further reading, here is an article that highlights some of the same concerns we have at MLC.
We would also like to encourage high school-aged students to explore some of the options below and try them out first. These options will help prepare students for MLC, increasing their chances of success.
And if you are aware of other high school options that will help prepare students for MLC, please pass on the information to us and we will add them to the list.
A Great Books Education offers a high school-level Humanities class that introduces students to the great books, great ideas, and great conversation of Western culture. This online class helps to build a solid foundation for a classical liberal arts education and is a great preparation for taking classes at Mount Liberty College. The class cycles through a four-year history rotation: Ancient Greece, Rome Through the Middle Ages, Renaissance to Revolutions (American and French), and finally Moderns and Post-Moderns. For the 2025-26 school year, we will be covering Renaissance to Revolutions.
Our courses teach Good Philosophy to children and adults. These are the best ideas underlying our Western philosophical tradition with an emphasis on the American Founding. We provide the knowledge families and communities need to navigate a radical world.
Liberty Hills Academy (LHA) is an accredited, nonprofit private school for students in preschool through 12th grade, founded in 2014 and located in Bountiful, Utah. LHA aligns its curriculum with the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints encouraging students to build strong moral character, personal responsibility, and love of liberty and country in addition to strong academics.
In Nampa, Idaho, Legacy Academy is a K-12 faith-based, principle-centered school devoted to educating the whole person—heart, might, mind, and strength. We believe education is a sacred process of becoming, not just knowing. We cultivate the heart by inspiring a love for beauty, goodness, and moral courage. We develop the mind through the pursuit of truth, teaching discernment and wisdom grounded in the light of Jesus Christ. We strengthen might by equipping students with meaningful skills, creativity, and the ability to contribute with confidence. And we build strength through intentional character education rooted in faith, service, and virtue. At Legacy, we raise up disciple-scholars prepared to think deeply, live faithfully, and lead with purpose.
MLC’s Education Summit
If you have a homeschool co-op, commonwealth, or just a group of parents who want to learn more about how to better read and discuss the classics and Great Books, an MLC Education Summit could be what you are looking for.
Our Summit includes:
– A look at the shift in the transformation of knowledge throughout history
– A conversation on the need for a liberal arts education in today’s society
– A discussion on the methods and best practices for reading the classics and Great Books
– A primer on the Socratic method
– A chance to participate in a Socratic discussion on Plato’s Meno with MLC faculty.
Please let us know how Mount Liberty College can help you and your family!