Years ago, Mike, now age forty five, was the announcer. Now he leaves that task to Brent. Then starts the T-toddler contest for children under eight. Their prizes will be baskets of Easter candy. A few adults are still scrambling to get their eggs registered.
Brent calls out for numbers one through forty to line up on the steps.
Mike is checking the eggs, making sure everyone is there, helping people find the knocking partners. If your eggs are not cracked, pair up with the next person in line and continue knocking. If you are finished knocking, please move off the steps. Just as a seasonal round of folklife customs, rituals, and beliefs accompanies our passage through the calendar year, so the cycle of life embraces us in a journey from birth to death marked by milestones great and small. This unit invites students to place their own seasonal rounds and life celebrations and milestones in the context of others in their communities, in Louisiana, and around the world.