German word wall - building vocabulary

I am an ESL (English as a Second Language) endorsed teacher, and I am going to experiment with my SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) training and other literacy tools to help me become more fluent in German.

I have taken 4 semesters of German and I cannot speak, read, or write in that language. I can understand a few things I hear in speech, but my vocabulary is very small. So the very first thing I will do is create a word wall for my own personal use, and use it as it is used with my students in the elementary school setting.

I hope to increase my abilities to teach my own English Language Learning students by my putting into practice the same techniques I am helping them with in my own class. I am also going to do some parts of my blog in German, so I have practice with writing and reading. I don't have the ability to do essets or umlauts, so I will have to do the English equivalent.

I imagine I will get some things wrong in this language, just as ELLs and I welcome any and all feedback for all attempts at my writing in this language that is foreign to me.

The first book I'm reading is the Book of Mormon because I've read it many times. I feel like it's the best book for me to read, and I love that book, so my vocabulary will be very evangelical in the beginning, but I will branch out the more I read.
Ich lege das Buch Mormon, weil ich viele ihn legte im Englisch habe. Ich liebe das Buch Mormon.

I want to also read Grundbegriffe des Evangeliums - and listen to it in English while I read in German. Then I will read it again in German while I listen to it being read to me in German. All of this will help me practice listening, reading, and writing. Speaking German is the challenge. I am not a very talkative person in English. So, I will have to be creative as to how I practice speaking. I don't know anyone to speak to, and classes are expensive and time consuming.

I think literate adults attack language acquisition in the opposite way that children do. Children develop social language first. I think adults gravitate and feel most comfortable with the academic language. I think children are willing to take more risks in interacting with people they don't know and can pick up spoken languages when faced with that challenge. Adults, however, especially the introverted ones (as I am), have a hard time taking risks and being embarrassed. It's humiliating to appear ignorant, and saying the wrong thing is one of the worst offenses you can commit as an adult, no matter what language the offense is committed. So I'll just hold off on the speaking part until I can find someone I feel comfortable speaking German with.

So here is my German word wall.