In this lesson, students build on the understandings developed in Lessons 1 and 2 and draw conclusions based on literary elements. Students will: 1  draw conclusions based on information within a text, including determining the theme of a text. 2  identify textual evidence to support conclusions.
Seamus /sea-mus/ [2 sylls.] as a boys' name is pronounced SHAY-mus. It is of Irish and Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Seamus is he who supplants. Variant of James.  Shamus  is sometimes used as an American slang for a private detective. Poet Seamus Heaney.
This is an anglicized form of the Olde Gaelic name O Cathail. The Gaelic prefix 'O' indicates 'male descendant of' plus the personal name Cathal, a compound of the Celtic elements 'catu-valus' meaning 'battle powerful'. In Ireland, the name is first recorded in the early half of the 10th century (see below). The principal sept of the O'Cahills belonged to Co.