Proposal?

So i'm working on a project for my communication's class and it is called individual proposal. When I think of proposal i thin of the deffiniton of it as:

1.	the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance.

2.	a plan or scheme proposed.

nope i'm wrong. This is a 1,500 - 2,000 word esay on our view of the group project. Why called a proposal when we are not proposing anything?