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.
The Gaelic word for foreigner is 'gall' and for black (or dark) is 'dubh'. Many of the invaders families took Gaelic names that utilised these two descriptive words. The name Doyle is in Irish 'O'Dubhghaill' which literally means 'dark foreigner' which reveals their heritage as an invading force with dark intentions.