https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj Maya Van Wagenen en-us 2018-12-03 19:44:37 UTC 2025-12-27 14:33:28 UTC hello@padlet.com kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/311997462 Wagenen, Maya Van. Popular: a Memoir: How a Geek in Pearls Discovered the Secret to Confidence. Speak, 2015.]]> 2018-12-06 19:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/311997462 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/316999918 Maya Van Wagenen is from Brownsville, Texas. She is going to 8th grade with her best friend Kenzie. Her mother advice her to follow the guidelines of the "Betty Cornell's Teenage Popularity guide". for her next 8th grade's year. Every month she was doing a chapter from the guide. ]]> 2019-01-02 05:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/316999918 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/317001364 As Maya reads Betty's Teenage popularity guide" she starts with good figure. As she read she get a lot of advice from Betty. After reading all the suggestions, she decide to dieting from next Tuesday after labor day's long weekend. ]]> 2019-01-02 06:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/317001364 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/317001623 Maya starts to diet on Tuesday but a decision made by the school that the students will get breakfast and lunch in there classes destroys her plans. They were getting packages of sugar-sweetened cereal, Chocolate milk and some sort of fried meat-filled thing. She starts to notice that she was losing weight and by the end of the month she lost 3 pounds. ]]> 2019-01-02 06:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/317001623 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/317155891 After, Maya loses three pounds she moves onto hair and after that she moves to modeling tricks. In this month she follows  Betty's way of standing and sitting posture. She tries to pull her stomach in and stand, sit straight. ]]> 2019-01-03 06:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/317155891 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/319532175 Maya follows Betty's rules and posture but she she does that her other friend Donna noticed her posture. Maya get a little unexcited to fix her posture because of Donna. Later, by the end of the month Maya get successful by hearing Miss Stacy the horse riding trainer. ]]> 2019-01-11 02:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/319532175 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/319533864 "She sits straight, head held high, showing the world how fantastic she is. 'Posture is everything,' I hear Miss Stacy say. I smile and in spite of my attitude, I draw myself up, tummy tucked in, and show off my bosom"]]> 2019-01-11 02:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/319533864 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/319536056 In this month Maya takes care pf her skin and put makeup on. Her mother help's her put makeup on nice and neatly. She uses powder, lipstick and Vaseline on her eyes. She washed her face with and also she kind of solved her problem of zits. The clear skin and the makeup made her crush, Ethan, notice at the church.]]> 2019-01-11 02:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/319536056 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323306646 2019-01-23 04:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323306646 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323306752 2019-01-23 04:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323306752 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323307206 2019-01-23 04:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323307206 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323307550 This week she has a really skin with nice makeup, beautiful figure and finally she gets to dressing up. She wear according to Betty, in the 50's style. She wore skirts, nice boots and more. Everyone at her school starts to notice her give unnecessary compliments. Her friend Kenzie returns and after some day they become friend with the popular volley ball team player Nadia. Maya thinks that it was making a difference in making her popular. ]]> 2019-01-23 04:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323307550 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323308637 " 'you look ... pretty. Wait... No. Not pretty...conservative.' That's the word. You look conservative. I stare down at my outfit. Yellow old lady cardigan and pilgrim shoes. She's right."]]> 2019-01-23 04:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323308637 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323309965 I this month Maya learns to stay neat and do all of her work neatly.  She irons her cloths, polish her boots and more. She tries to get everything perfectly done. As, she learn to stay neat she has to go away for her family for a week. The school choir went north to San Antonio for a music convention. After Maya gets back home, on valentines day she receives a lot of gifts. She gets gifts and candy from her friends and from choir students, after getting a lot of gifts she think that she has become popular.  ]]> 2019-01-23 05:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323309965 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323311029 In this month, Maya tries to get friends and get a better personality trait. She starts to make lot of friends. She joins club that could help have more friends and have better personality trait. She learn how to talk bu sitting in front of the mirror and talk to herself. She gets e-mails and messages. She gets confident that she was almost there of becoming a popular. Then she find an e-mail from her teacher, that has cancer. Rather, than feeling happy about her popularity she gets really sad. ]]> 2019-01-23 05:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323311029 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323311839 She continues her month. She isn't shy and start make not a lot but many friends. Maya was making a lot of friends and was joining different lunch tables to get new friends. Then, a Guy named Beto asks Maya out. The good part was he was from the football faction. She get a really good month and also gets to met Betty Cornell. She speaks to her and talk about how she followed her suggestions. ]]> 2019-01-23 05:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323311839 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323312799 "Hi, this is Maya."
"Hello, this Betty Cornell..."]]> 2019-01-23 05:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323312799 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323313102 2019-01-23 05:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323313102 kaurcha006 https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323313141 2019-01-23 05:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kaurcha006/9z9kwliq8uzj/wish/323313141