BA Disposal Request (1)

BACON ACADEMY

Colchester Public Schools

Fonnded in 1803

   

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To: Colchester Board of Education

From: Matthew Peel, Principal, Bacon Academy

Re: Disposal of old Social Studies books

Date: July 23rd, 2021

This memo is a request for approval to dispose of many old textbooks and other books in the Social
Studies department. The book closet for this department hasn’t been weeded through or cleaned in
many, many years. We took time this summer to identify what books we no longer use, are antiquated,
or do not align with the teaching practices or curriculum currently in place at Bacon Academy. Thank
you for allowing us to dispose of these old books, which will free up storage space for books that offer
more current and diverse views of history. Once approved, we will search for a company that can recycle

the books appropriately. Vhe list of books we would like to dispose of include:

Human Geography In Action (16 copies)

® The Geography of Bliss (18 copies)

e Through African Eyes Cultures in Change (23 copies)

e Human Geography Culture, Society, and Space (51 copies)
e Human Geography People, Place, and Culture (26 copies)
e America’s Story (2 copies)

@ The Age of Jackson (24 copies)

® Democracy in America (9 copies)

@ How to Lie With Maps (15 copies)

e Portrait of America (106 copies)

® Getting to Know ARC View GIS (38 copies)


@ Great Issues in American History (5 copies)

e@ Webster’s New Geographical Dictionary (3 copies)

e@ The American Century Thesaurus (3 copies)

e Webster’s New Students Dictionary (5 copies)

e MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (35 copies)
e The Screwtape Letters (9 copies)

e Rats, Lice, and History (56 copies)

@ Messages and Papers of the Presidents (10 copies)

e Civilization Past and Present (78 copies)

e American Government and Politics Today (54 copies)

e Rights of Man (7 copies)

e American Government (6 copies)

e We The People The Citizen and the Constitution (40 copies)
e Introducing Anthropology An Integrated Approach (61 copies)
e@ The Fourteen Points (21 copies)

@ Merriam-Webster’s School Dictionary (9 copies)

e The American Heritage Student’s Dictionary (3 copies)

e The Brief American Pageant (52 copies)

e A People Nation (31 copies)

e America Is (43 copies)

e Geography The World and Its People (21 copies)

@ Geography Alive! Regions and People (44 copies)

e Human Heritage (3 copies)

e@ Congress and the Nation (6 copies)

Thank you for considering this request!