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.
Lastly the surname may derive from the Cornish pre 10th century word cuf, meaning a dear or kind person. In Ireland, the surname is first recorded in 1589, when Hugh Cuffe, obtained 12,000 acres of Desmond land at only 1d. per acre.