It would help to figure out what version of VB your school uses, if possible! No biggie though. But really, you should just grab one of the latest VB books and start reading - if you can retain information like that.
Personally, I'm unable to do that... I would just start Googling random tutorials for some basic stuff, and trying to learn from that (prior programming experience is good - of any kind, just for the basic concepts)...but in doing ths, a lot of the language fundamentals are missed - but hey, that's what the teacher is for.