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.
Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland in 1939, just after Irish independence. Many of his major works of poetry were written during The Troubles, the name given the conflict that raged between Protestant and Catholic factions in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998.