A fun way to learn the history of the United States!  On the Trail of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Adventure is a video/game with audio and text based on the book "John Smith Escapes Again!",  that describes the first colony in the new land.  It's excellent for ESOL students because the video supports the audio and text (context rich).  For those ESOL students that don't need the audio support, you can silence the audio to encourage the student to read and comprehend the text.  It is broken down into short segments in order to give a break between segments of the whole story.  Each short segment has interactive activities to allow the students to become involved in the story.