From paragraph 1

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2016). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [1 mark] Dill / her (and her brother's) friend went / had gone home // she was (miserable) without Dill // she was missing Dill
2. Allow Lift of 'My brother.....bus'
3. Excess denies
4. Don't Allow Dill went away on the five o'clock bus
5. Don't Allow The summer was over
6. Additional information Ignore gender confusion in this and subsequent questions. Look for the idea of separation. Be generous with tenses, e.g. Dill was leaving / would leave etc.
7. [1 mark] she was starting school in a week/soon // she was about to start school
8. Allow Lift of 'I would be starting school in a week'
9. Allow Lift of ' 'I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting school in a week', although first person is used
10. Don't Allow School was opening / starting the next week
11. Don't Allow She was going to school in a week
12. [1 mark] MORTIFY: embarrass/ shame/ make awkward
13. Don't Allow Disturb / bother / trouble (in either limb)
14. Don't Allow It would make him look childish / stupid
15. [1 mark] TAGGING ALONG: following / hanging about / shadowing
16. Allow in tow
17. Don't Allow Answers suggesting equality between them, e.g. hanging out with / accompanying
18. Additional information This is an OWN WORDS question. Key words are MORTIFY and TAGGING ALONG