According to the School Improvement Plan for our school, students scores fell well below the national average of 84.7 percent in Reading. Therefore, this track has been created for fifth grade Language Arts class of students with average intelligence. Students will participate in a variety of activities that will engage them in many aspects of the learning process. For example, students will be using journals, brainstorming, and collaborating with peers while learning about important historical events through literature. The students will develop the reading skills necessary for word recogntion, comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and appreciation of the written text by completeing the activities in this unit. Also the profiler survey made me aware that among other things, my students are rarely given opportunities to think of other ways to tell what they have learned and recognize what is important about a topic being discussed. Both of these items will be addressed in the unit. For example, students will tell others about the story through their posters, and students will determine the important events in the story when brainstorming.