This might be a bit too general for what you're thinking of but I'm reading a book by Michael Carr-Gregg at the moment called "Surviving Year 12" and he recommends dividing each day into hourly increments and then allocating something to each hour whether it's travelling to school, recreation, an extra-curricular activity. Then you can see what time you have and what's left over for study.
In the sample he gives, each weekday homework starts at 8pm (I know, that seemed quite late to me too) and goes to 8.50pm then a break. Resume homework at 9.05pm until 9.55pm. Then a break till 10.10pm until sleep at 11pm. No homework on Saturday but 7 x 1 hour blocks with 1 hour breaks inbetween on Sundays.
I think his theory is that if you've got the whole evening ahead of you with homework looming, it's easy to kind of half-study for hours on end, not enjoy it and not feel productive. So better to attack it in manageable chunks, starting later so you can do whatever you want until 8pm (even if that's just MSNing your mates who you just saw at school all day!)
As I said, that's probably a bit more general than what you were looking for, but let me know if you want me to p/copy a couple of chapters for you.
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